Annabel Dimmock accomplished her comeback from harm by ending her five-year winless run on the Women European Tour with a sensational victory on the KPMG Girls’s Irish Open.
Dimmock took a two-shot lead into the ultimate spherical on the O’Meara Course at Carton Home, the place a three-under 70 noticed her end on 19 underneath alongside France’s Pauline Roussin-Bouchard.
The gamers exchanged pars on the first play-off gap, earlier than a par on the second play-off gap from Dimmock was sufficient to assert her second LET win and first for the reason that 2019 Jabra Women Open.
“I’m just shell-shocked and over the moon right now,” stated Dimmock, who had been sidelined from the sport for eight months resulting from a thumb harm. I’ve labored actually exhausting to get myself again and I’m pleased with myself.”
Dimmock began her day with back-to-back birdies then cancelled out a bogey on the twelfth by selecting up a shot on the subsequent to drag degree with Roussin-Bouchard, who had charged up the sphere with seven birdies in her first 13 holes.
Roussin-Bouchard added one other birdie on the fifteenth however three-putted the subsequent to fall again to 18 underneath, earlier than becoming a member of Dimmock in profiting from the par-five seventeenth to equal the bottom spherical of the day.
“It was just good golf all around,” Roussin-Bouchard stated after shedding the play-off. “I missed a few opportunities, but I made others. It was great. I went for it in that play-off. You try things, sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn’t.”
Finland’s Ursula Wikstrom completed a shot again in third after failing to discover a final-hole birdie that might have made it a three-way play-off, with Switzerland’s Chiara Tamburlini two off the tempo in fourth after matching Roussin-Bouchard’s 65.
Lily Might Humphreys ended the week in a share of tenth, whereas Solheim Cup stars Georgia Corridor and Leona Maguire each carded five-under 68s to finish tied for fifteenth on 10 underneath.
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