Ko: Will normal transmission resume?

It will be interesting to see what path the career of Lydia Ko heads down this year.
At the end of last year Ko announced she was splitting with her United States-based coach David Leadbetter after three years together.
During that time Ko racked up 12 wins on the LPGA Tour, including two majors.
But Ko’s form tapered off towards the end of last year.
After taking the silver medal at the Olympics in Brazil in August, the path she went down was the worst she had encountered since turning professional in 2012. She did not post a top-10 in her next five tournaments before the season-finale CME Group Tour Championship, at which she finished out of the top 40 three times. In addition, her last two majors, the British Open and Evian Championship, she was 40th and 43rd.
This was not the Ko we knew.
It seems a change to her swing, to gain more length off the tee, may have contributed to her declining form.
Leadbetter claimed Ko’s father Gil Hong Ko and mother Bob Sook Hyon were having too big an influence on Lydia’s golf.
It’s hard to know whether this was sour grapes from Leadbetter but he told Gold Digest magazine: “They tell her when to go to bed, what to eat, what to wear, when to practice and what to practice. And they expect her to win every tournament.
``They are good people, who love their daughter and want the very best for her. But they are naive about golf. And at some point, they’ve got to let the bird fly from the nest. I would often think, it’s not easy coaching three people.”
There have been other decisions which have raised questions. In her first year as professional, 2014, Ko changed caddies seven times. She finally settled on Jason Hamilton, with whom she won 10 tournaments in two years. But in October, with three weeks to go in the season, she fired Hamilton.
At the same time Leadbetter was dropped, Ko said she would be changing equipment companies from Callaway to PXG.