Lydia Ko made an 'unusual' switch. Then she nearly made history

After Lydia Ko’s opening birdie in the first round of the Ford Championship in Chandler, Ariz., her playing partner, Lottie Woad, spotted a new addition to Ko’s bag: a Scotty Cameron T12 prototype putter. Ko’s not one to swap out putters without extensive testing and deep deliberation so the newcomer was a conversation piece. When Load called it out, Ko said something along the lines of, “I holed the first one, so it was a good start.” Then Ko holed the second one, on her second hole of the day, the...