England’s Amy Taylor secured her breakthrough Girls European Tour title with a dramatic one-shot win on the Girls Italian Open.
The 23-year-old carded a three-under 69 on the ultimate day at Golf Nazionale, mixing six birdies with three bogeys to complete on 10 beneath and one away from Spain’s Maria Hernandez.
Taylor took a one-shot lead into the ultimate day and pulled away from the sphere with 4 birdies in a six-hole stretch from the third, solely to provide the chasing pack hope with bogeys on the eleventh and thirteenth.
Additional birdies on the 14th and sixteenth gave Taylor a two-shot cushion heading to the par-five final, the place a bogey was sufficient to take the trophy and safe her LET standing for the following three years.
“I’ve no phrases in the mean time!” she mentioned after the victory. “I am unable to actually imagine it. Earlier this week I went to the [Trevi] fountain in Rome and I did throw a coin in and want that I’d win! I did not inform anybody, nevertheless it got here true!
“I knew I had two putts for it after I was on the 18th inexperienced. Harry [Ewing] my caddie mentioned, ‘simply faucet it down there’, and I hit it three-foot previous! So he may need aged a bit due to me immediately, however I am simply pleased I used to be capable of gap the one coming again. I nonetheless received so it is okay!”
Hernandez got here near a second LET title – and first since 2010 – because of ending her final-round 67 with an unbelievable chip-in eagle on the par-five 18th, whereas France’s Camille Chevalier claimed a share of third on seven beneath alongside Shannon Tan and Italian beginner Francesca Fiorellini.
5 gamers ended the week in a tie for sixth, a bunch which included Pia Babnik, Taylor’s enjoying accomplice Alessandra Fanali – who fired a five-under 67 – Emma Spitz, Kirsten Rudgeley and Diksha Dagar.
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