England’s world primary novice Lottie Woad completed third on the Augusta Nationwide Girls’s Novice as Spain’s Carla Bernat Escuder took the title.
Woad, 21, had collectively led in a single day however a bogey on the par-three sixteenth successfully ended her hopes of turning into the primary participant to win successive ANWA championships.
She birdied three of the ultimate 4 holes to win final yr’s title however was unable to match that cost this yr, lacking a 10-foot birdie putt on the fifteenth after which dumping her tee shot on the subsequent right into a greenside bunker and taking three extra from there.
Woad had began the ultimate spherical on 9 below – after two rounds on the close by Champions Retreat course – however may solely shoot a level-par 72 on the famed Georgia course that can host subsequent week’s Masters.
A comfort for Woad is that she continues her report of ending inside the highest three of her previous 9 strokeplay occasions.
Bernat Escuder rolled in a four-foot par putt on the final to win the sixth staging of the championship by one shot from from American teenage sensation Asterisk Talley.
The 21-year-old Spaniard had six birdies and two bogeys in her spherical of 68 to publish 12 below and maintain off Talley, who additionally shot a four-under-par last spherical.
Talley, 16, holed her second shot from the golf green for an eagle two on the par-four first.
She then had successive birdies on the sixteenth and seventeenth holes to place strain on Bernat Escuder, however the Spaniard saved her nerve to par the final.
“I can not course of that I received,” stated Bernat Escuder who’s the primary participant to attain below 70 in all three rounds.
“I attempted to get pleasure from this spherical with my coach as a result of it should be the final one.
“I am turning skilled this subsequent summer time, so I used to be actually centered on smiling and simply having fun with Augusta Nationwide as a result of it is the most effective golf course on the earth.”
The victory entitles Bernat Escuder to play in 4 of the yr’s 5 girls’s majors, together with the US Girls’s Open and Girls’s Open.
