Lydia Ko to donate prize money to Nepal relief fund

Women's world number one Lydia Ko will donate any prize money that she wins this week to a relief fund set up to help those affected by the Nepal earthquake.

More than 5,000 people died when the earthquake struck Kathmandu last Saturday.

"Natural disasters you can't do much about. I thought, 'Those people there, nice people, very innocent'," Ko told reporters. "So I wanted to give this tournament's earnings."

Ko, who became golf's youngest world number one at 17 years old, is playing in the LPGA's North Texas Shootout. If she repeats last week's Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic success, she would win £126,000.

In 2011, an earthquake struck Christchurch in Ko's native country of New Zealand.