Lydia Ko Husband & Net Worth 2026: Age, Height, Bio

Lydia Ko i isn’t just one of the most accomplished golfers of her generation—she’s also one of the most searched, because of this kinda fairytale rise from a teenage prodigy to an LPGA Hall of Famer and, yeah, that headline-making marriage into one of South Korea’s wealthiest families. Here’s the full, fact-checked breakdown of her life both on and off the course.

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How Old is Lydia Ko & and Parents

Lydia Ko, she was born as Bogyung Ko on April 24 1997, in Seoul South Korea. Her family moved to Auckland New Zealand when she was four, and she became a naturalized New Zealand citizen at 12, sort of calmly, like it just happened, I guess. She got into golf at five, after her mother brought her into the pro shop at Pupuke Golf Club on Auckland’s North Shore.

She has an older sister, Sura, and her early training in New Zealand came with real hurdles—golf wasn’t exactly a major thing there, and getting to proper courses and facilities was limited, compared with golf powerhouses like the US or South Korea.

Lydia Ko Biography/Wiki

Category	Details
Full Name	Bogyung “Lydia” Ko
Date of Birth	April 24, 1997
Age	29 (as of 2026)
Birthplace	Seoul, South Korea
Nationality	New Zealand
Height	5 ft 6 in (168 cm)
Profession	Professional Golfer (LPGA Tour)
Turned Pro	October 2013
Husband	Jun Chung (m. December 30, 2022)
Estimated Net Worth	$20–25 million (2025 estimate)
Career Prize Money	Over $20 million (LPGA Tour)

Lydia Ko Career Journey

Ko’s rise was startlingly fast. When she was only 14, she became the youngest player ever to take home a professional golf tour win , by grabbing the New South Wales Women’s Open in January 2012. Later that year, while she was still an amateur, she won the CN Canadian Women’s Open. That made her the youngest player in LPGA Tour history at 15 years and four months. She defended the title in 2013, then went professional in October of that same year, after clocking up 130 weeks as the world’s top-ranked amateur, pretty wild really.

Her career, kind of took off right away, seriously. Then in February 2015, when she was 17 years 9 months and 9 days old, Ko became the youngest player of either gender to reach world No. 1 in professional golf . And yes, that benchmark still stands, as a record too. Later that year she snagged her first major at the Evian Championship, then in 2016 she added a second major at the ANA Inspiration, which now goes by the Chevron Championship. In that one her final-round 62 was not just good it set a scoring record for women’s major championship golf, sort of the whole thing.

Then there was a mid-career slump, where she slipped out of the world’s top 50, and you could say she rebuilt everything. She worked on her game again, and she also reworked coach relationships too — she has had a few coaches over the years, including that well known, early pro-career stint with the respected instructor David Leadbetter. Her comeback, really peaked in 2024. She won the Tournament of Champions, then sort of grabbed her third major title at the AIG Women’s Open at St. Andrews and afterward she also snagged gold in women’s golf at the Paris Olympics.

That Olympic gold, it basically finished a full set of medals, across three separate Games, silver in Rio 2016, bronze in Tokyo 2020, and gold in Paris 2024. It puts her as the only golfer in the modern era to pull off that kind of exact arrangement, yeah, and it even brought the very last point she needed for induction into the LPGA Hall of Fame. She became the 35th member and also the youngest ever, joining at age 27, no kidding.

Lydia Ko Current Season and Stats

Ko kept that big, strong rhythm going into 2025, taking home the HSBC Women’s World Championship in Singapore to grab her 23rd LPGA Tour title. Looking back over her career, there are more than 20 LPGA Tour wins to her name, three major trophies, and well over $20 million in official prize money—still one of the highest totals you’ll see in women’s golf history, kind of wild really.

Lydia Ko: Husband and Marriage

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Lydia Ko is married to Jun Chung, who is also sometimes shown as Chung Jun . Meanwhile, he is the youngest son of Chung Tae-young, and he acts as vice-chairman and CEO of Hyundai Card. The story is that the two were linked through mutual friends and started dating around 2020 2021, more or less. So yeah, it kind of clicked from there. Ko confirmed their engagement in the summer of 2022, proposing to Chung in a golf-themed twist — writing “Will you marry me?” across a series of golf balls. They married on December 30, 2022, in a ceremony at Myeongdong Cathedral in Seoul, attended by several of Ko’s fellow LPGA players.

Chung studied at Claremont McKenna College in California before moving into the financial side of the Hyundai Group. It’s worth separating two different figures that often get mixed up in coverage of the couple: Chung’s own personal net worth, built through his career, is estimated at around $1.5 million — separate from the broader Hyundai/Chung family fortune, which Forbes has estimated at roughly $14.8 billion. Ko herself has credited the marriage with helping her find better balance between golf and life away from the course.

Lydia Ko Fun Facts

Ko was also named a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2025 New Year Honours, and honestly because of that, she became the youngest person in the modern era to receive the honor which is pretty eye-catching.
She’s also the only golfer in the modern Olympic era to have medals in every color, gold, silver and bronze, across three different Games.
She was the fifth amateur in LPGA history, and the first since 1967, to win a Tour event as a non-member.

Lydia Ko, Olympic gold medalist

From a five-year-old swinging clubs at a small Auckland golf course to an Olympic gold medalist and LPGA Hall of Famer married into one of Asia’s most prominent business families, Lydia Ko’s story is one of the most remarkable in modern golf. For more coverage stay with sportshail.com.