The potential future stars {of professional} golf battled it out on the Justin Rose Telegraph Junior Golf Championship, with prolonged highlights this month out there on Sky Sports activities Golf.
The annual occasion is without doubt one of the largest within the junior {golfing} calendar, with Ryder Cup stars and a number of previous DP World Tour and Women European Tour winners are all previous champions.
Quinta do Lago’s South Course within the Algarve as soon as once more hosted the 2025 version, the place a number of the finest British-based youngsters have been in motion for the fortieth anniversary of the three-round match.
Matt Fitzpatrick, Andrew Coltart and Rose himself are simply a number of the previous champions of the boys’s occasion, however none of these achieved what Charlie Rusbridge has by efficiently defending his title.
Rusbridge adopted his 2024 success by claiming a three-shot victory on this 12 months’s occasion, pulling away from Scotland’s Kai Laing with a final-round 69 to develop into the primary back-to-back winner since Stiggy Hodgson in 2008.
“This was more stressful than last year as the chasing pack really made me work for it,” Rusbridge stated. “This has been a troublesome 12 months for me, to be sincere. I gained in France, however this has been a studying season for me in lots of respects.
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“So to cap it off with this trophy makes it so satisfying. I know I said before that I’d like to win it three times in a row, but I didn’t know that hasn’t been done before. It feels more realistic after this. I’m still on track and haven’t failed yet!”
Mel Reid, Jodi Ewart Shadoff, Alice Hewson and Mimi Rhodes have all gone on to spectacular careers after profitable the ladies’s occasion, with Lauren Crump hoping to observe go well with after cruising to a six-shot victory.
The highly-rated 17-year-old posted a final-round 71 to increase her profitable margin over compatriot Zoe McLean-Tattan, with Charlotte Naughton 10 strokes off the tempo in third.
“This is a great way to finish off 2025,” Crump stated. “I have won the English Girls for the last two years, but I would class this as my highlight so far. I’m so happy.”
Sky Sports activities have been on-site all through the week filming the match, with a particular 30-minute highlights programme produced to cowl the very best of the motion from the gamers concerned.
The prolonged highlights will probably be first proven on Monday December twenty second from 7.30pm on Sky Sports activities Golf and repeated on the similar time the following night, earlier than being proven once more on quite a few events all through the festive interval and likewise turning into out there on the Sky Sports activities Golf YouTube channel.
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