England’s Mimi Rhodes clinched her first Women 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 report throughout her second spherical – a nine-under 62 that featured 10 beneficial properties, 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 reduce finally week’s Australian Ladies’s Traditional, an occasion gained by De Roey, mentioned: “I am truthfully nonetheless in shock, however I am so blissful. I’ve labored actually laborious for this.
“I had a difficult week last week [missing the cut in Coffs Harbour], I went through a swing change and it obviously worked! I’m just really happy.”
“I used to be wonderful on the entrance 9 however when it began to get tight I received a bit pressured. I saved respiration and tried to stay centered. It is tough in these conditions however I am simply actually glad I received it executed.
“To celebrate I’m spending the night with family and friends in Sydney. Maybe we’ll have some champagne!
Hole-in-one for Switzerland’s Metraux
Italy’s Alessandra Fanali and home player Kirsten Rudgeley shared second place, with the former – who had birdied 17 to move within one shot of Rhodes – forced 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 under par, one shot better off than fourth-placed Sara Kouskova of the Czech Republic.
Switzerland’s Kim Metraux recorded a hole-in-one on the par-three 10th en route to finishing in a share of fifth place on seven under, alongside Spanish pair Blanca Fernandez and Nuria Iturrioz and Sweden’s Moa Folke.
There is now a week off for the Ladies European Tour before the season resumes in South Africa for the Joburg Ladies Open from April 3.
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