England’s Mimi Rhodes clinched her first Girls European Tour Title in simply her fourth occasion as a full-time member with a two-shot win on the Ford Ladies’s NSW Open.
Rhodes, 23, carded a bogey-free, two-under spherical of 69 on Sunday, making birdies at two and 4 round 16 pars, to complete on 17-under for the match in Wollongong, Australia.
The Somerset-born participant had shot the course file throughout her second spherical – a nine-under 62 that featured 10 positive factors, together with three in a row twice, and a solitary bogey.
Rhodes provides this title to a powerful catalogue of beginner victories, together with the Curtis Cup, Justin Rose Telegraph Junior Golf Championship and NCAA Division I Ladies’s Golf Championship, and has now risen to 3rd on the LET Order of Benefit, behind compatriot Cara Gainer and Belgium’s Manon De Roey.
‘Shocked Rhodes’ planning champagne celebration
Rhodes, who missed the minimize finally week’s Australian Ladies’s Basic, an occasion received by De Roey, mentioned: “I am actually nonetheless in shock, however I am so joyful. I’ve labored actually exhausting for this.
“I had a troublesome week final week [missing the cut in Coffs Harbour], I went via a swing change and it clearly labored! I am simply actually joyful.”
“I used to be high quality on the entrance 9 however when it began to get tight I bought a bit burdened. I stored respiratory and tried to stay targeted. It is troublesome in these conditions however I am simply actually glad I bought it performed.
“To have fun I am spending the night time with household and associates in Sydney. Possibly we’ll have some champagne!
Gap-in-one for Switzerland’s Metraux
Italy’s Alessandra Fanali and residential participant Kirsten Rudgeley shared second place, with the previous – who had birdied 17 to maneuver inside one shot of Rhodes – compelled to take a drop on the par-five 18th after pulling her tee shot.
Fanali went on to make bogey as she and Rudgeley ended on 15 underneath par, one shot higher off than fourth-placed Sara Kouskova of the Czech Republic.
Switzerland’s Kim Metraux recorded a hole-in-one on the par-three tenth en path to ending in a share of fifth place on seven underneath, alongside Spanish pair Blanca Fernandez and Nuria Iturrioz and Sweden’s Moa Folke.
There may be now every week off for the Girls European Tour earlier than the season resumes in South Africa for the Joburg Girls Open from April 3.
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