Type in the phrase, “What’s gone wrong with Lydia Ko?” and you’ll get plenty of opinions from New York to New Zealand. Type it in about yourself, not so much.

The problem with being a prodigy is it’s hard to remain one — particularly in entertainment and sports, where there’s a new kid in town practically every week wanting what you have. Only two short years ago, Ko was the next big thing in women’s golf. She was the youngest this and the youngest that, including the youngest already to have two majors in her bag at age 18.

After winning her second at the ANA Inspiration in Rancho Mirage, Calif., three days later she jetted off to Augusta, Ga., to take part in the traditional Masters par-3 contest, only to fly all the way to Hawaii for the next stop on the LPGA Tour one week after. Ko was a teen sensation. A post-millennial’s millennial. The youngest player ever to be ranked No. 1 in women’s golf at 17 years, 9 months, 9 days. Just reading a sentence like that out loud is enough reason to descend from the iron throne and go elsewhere.

Now ranked sweet 16 in the world just nine days shy of her 21st birthday, if you didn’t know any better you’d think Ko was a done deal, not the real variety everyone only recently proclaimed her to be. Her resume is an impressive one dating back to when she turned pro in October 2013. The good news is she already has 14 wins on tour, including the two majors. The bad news is, none in 2017 and none so far this year, where her reign of terror inside the ropes has lost its edge.

As an amateur, she never missed a cut in 25 professional events. Even before turning pro, she was No. 5 in the World Golf Rankings. She played in her first LPGA Tour event as a 14-year-old and made the cut in her first 53 tournaments played. Time magazine named her as one of the 100 most influential people in the world — pretty heady stuff for a 17-year-old born in Korea and raised in New Zealand.

Now, she’s trying to find her game to remain relevant. For 85 weeks she was No. 1 in the world, but that ended in June of last year. Since then, she’s struggled by her standards. And maybe that’s part of the problem: Her standards are high. She managed a tie for 20th at the most recent ANA Inspiration, took the next week off and then came over here looking for something that’s still missing from the scene — a win.

It was hard to do here this week at the Lotte Championship played in blustery conditions at Ko Olina. Despite a tie for second last year, she began her stay here on Wednesday with a plus-4 76 that left her closer to the cut line than the trophy presentation. Two steadier rounds of 71 and 70 had her at 1 over for the event starting Saturday’s round with no television cameras following her every move.

She bogeyed the second, birdied the third and bogeyed the ninth and 12th holes to drop to 3 over for the tournament and in danger of finding no positives during her 72 holes here on Oahu. Then, she snaked one in for birdie at the 14th, had another birdie putt circle the cup at 15 before it went in and then birdied the par-3 16th from 6 feet below the hole. A nice par save from a similar distance at 17 led to a beautiful 5-footer for birdie at the last to put Ko in a positive frame of mind.

At the scorer’s tent, she couldn’t believe she shot only 70. Birdieing four of the last five will do that to you. She was so sure the score was wrong, she sought out new caddie Jonny Scott just to make sure before signing her card. Ko finished at 1-under 287 for the event and a T-19. So far in 2018, her best finish in seven events is a tie for 10th at the HSBC Women’s World Championship.

When confirming in February she had a new caddie and a new coach, she got so much negative attention from making yet another switch after going winless in 2017 that she shut down her Twitter account. Scott is a veteran looper of Laura Davies and most recently Karrie Webb fame. He made two nice reads for Ko on her birdies at 14 and 15 — so much so, she pointed at him in thanks when the second of those two fell in.

“I don’t know what happened — it was a good turnaround there,” Ko said. “It was good to make a birdie there after that long streak (10 holes without a birdie). It was a really good finish and I’m happy with the score there. I had those two putts lip in at 14 and 15, and I haven’t had that many times where they lipped in, so it was definitely nice to see something different.”

She is still searching for that elusive confidence that she had before “What’s gone wrong with Lydia Ko” ruled her world. But she’s more interested in what’s going right.

“I think we’re heading toward the right direction,” Ko said. “There are still a lot of things to work on, but week in and week out all you can do is play with confidence. Confidence is like the 15th club in your bag. Even when things don’t go right, you still believe in yourself and you’re patient enough that you’re able to fight through it.”