"Lydia Ko is golf’s ultimate prodigy"

A bold lede by GolfChannel.com's Randall Mell by it is hard to argue against his case after a 63 to close out the Evian Championship at age 18 for her first major.

In a sport increasingly populated by young people in their early-to-mid-20s, Ko remains freakishly young for someone so accomplished and whose game is so refined. Her final round 63 will have to rank as the female equivalent of Johnny Miller's at Oakmont for all time great closing scores.

Mell writes:

She was seven shots better than anyone else in contention, seven shots better than anyone else among the final 18 players off the first tee on Sunday.

Though Ko started two shots behind at day’s start, she won by six. She hit every green in regulation but one.

“It’s kind of hard to beat somebody who shoots 63,” said Lexi Thompson, who shot 70 and still got lapped finishing second. “She played amazing. She deserves it. She ball-struck the heck out of this golf course and putted really well. You can't get much better than that.”

And to clarify on the "youngest ever" talk, Mell explains that Ko is the youngest in the modern era.

Ko sets the new mark as youngest woman to win a major at 18 years, 4 months and 20 days old.  Really, though, Ko’s feat feels even more historic than that. Yeah, sure, Young Tom Morris was 17 when he won the Open Championship in 1868, but he was among just a dozen players in the field.