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AURORA, Ont. – It was a record-breaking week for Jin Young Ko at the CP Women’s Open at Magna Golf Club. Her 26-under-par winning score is the lowest score versus par at our national open for a man or woman.

In fact, she has never made bogey in Canada. How’s that for good?

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The world No. 1 has won four times this season on the LPGA Tour, including two major championships. The 24-year-old will tee it up in Portland at the Cambia Portland Classic on Thursday, having not made a bogey in 106 holes.

Although the men get most of the publicity, golf is being played at an unprecedented level on both the PGA and LPGA Tours. Apologies to Jordan Spieth, but during her incredible six major-win run from 2013-2016, it could easily be argued that Inbee Park was the best putter in the world.

Just how good are these women? We asked Canadian National Women’s Team coach Tristan Mullally about just that.

“We did a comparison a number of years ago in terms of why it was viewed that sometimes the men’s game was better than the women’s game and was that real in terms of stats,” Mullally told The Fore-Cast, Postmedia’s weekly golf podcast. “And certainly in the men’s game there is more depth – there are more players playing the game – so that standard at the lower end is definitely higher but the top 30 players in the world, stroke average, if you look across tours is very similar.”