\u201cI\u2019ve been able to excel at the highest level in my industry, which not everybody gets to do, and I did it for quite a long time and for different phases,\u201d said Ko. \u201cI would hate to be at a point where I\u2019m like, I don\u2019t even want to see my golf clubs anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n
Still only 28 years old but a veteran on the LPGA Tour in her 13th season, Ko last month admitted that golf is starting to take a toll.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo be honest, now that I\u2019ve been on tour for so long, my body, I know, is not the same as 10 years ago. So my recovery is not as fast as I think it should be. Sometimes I think the fatigue catches up to me more than where I am mentally. So, I\u2019m just trying to have a good balance of that,\u201d Ko told media.<\/p>\n
For a player who has ticked almost all the boxes in a Hall of Fame career, a few trophies elude her. Ko needs a victory at either the women\u2019s US Open or women\u2019s PGA Championship to claim the career grand slam, a feat the PGA Tour\u2019s Rory McIlroy completed<\/a> at the Masters last year.<\/p>\n This year\u2019s women\u2019s US Open takes place at California\u2019s Riviera Country Club in the first week of June, which will also host the Olympics.<\/p>\n \u201cThere might be the question in your head like, okay, what\u2019s next? And I\u2019ve had that question in my career at multiple points, and even after winning the silver medal in Rio, that was such a big goal of mine. After that was done, I had lost a little bit of sense of direction in my career,\u201d Ko said last month.<\/p>\n \u201cI think the US Women\u2019s Open has always been a big star or key on the schedule in any season. I obviously haven\u2019t won that. So that\u2019s always a motivation.\u201d<\/p>\n Ko opened with a one-under 71 in the first round of the Founders Cup to sit in a share of 42nd.<\/p>\n