Lydia Ko on husband's Evian ultimatum: 'I'm not going to caddie for a wuss'

Lydia Ko gave her caddie an A+ this week. That's notable given that she had her husband, Jun Chung, on the bag for the first time.

Lydia Ko gave her caddie an A+ this week. That's notable given that she had her husband, Jun Chung, on the bag for the first time at the Amundi Evian Championship. "Would it be an A+ for other players?

I'm not really sure," she said. "But obviously he can say some things that only a husband can say, and maybe not Paul for me on a week to week." Ko set a goal of 6 under for the final round and did one better, matching the day's best of 64 on Sunday to finish in a share of seventh at 13 under, six shots back of winner Haeran Ryu.

It marked her best finish on tour since March and followed a T-15 at the KPMG Women's PGA. Watching Chung caddie, she said, made her appreciate more what her regular looper, Paul Cormack, does on a weekly basis. When asked about Chung's best advice this week, Ko said it was more like an ultimatum.

"He was like, 'Oh, I'm not going to caddie for a wuss,' so I think that made me be a little bit more kind of aggressive," she said. "And then he really didn't have any bad advice. I told him to like keep up and shut up.

That was kind of like my advice at the start of the week. I actually relied on him in like green reading as well, which has kind of been the thing that I struggled with on these greens the past few years." Keep up and shut up, of course, being the golden rule for call caddies.

At the start of the week, the subject of money came up and Chung reminded his wife that he was taking vacation days to work for her. She made $242,409 in the fourth major of the season. "You should be honored to caddie for a Hall of Famer," Ko deadpanned.

Needless to say, they had a good time in France. Beth Ann Nichols is a senior writer for Golfweek covering the LPGA and all things women's golf. This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Lydia Ko on husband's Evian ultimatum: 'I'm not going to caddie for a wuss'