Hampshire’s Liz Younger secured the second Women European Tour title of her profession after she pipped Belgium’s Manon De Roey to the Hero Girls’s Indian Open title.
Trailing De Roey and compatriot Alice Hewson by one shot heading into Sunday’s ultimate spherical at DLF Golf & Nation Membership, the 42-year-old from Brockenhurst was nonetheless a shot behind De Roey after 14 holes, however the turning level got here on the par-5 fifteenth when Younger’s persistence paid off and she or he carded a superb birdie.
Two holes later and the treacherous seventeenth proved decisive once more as De Roey dropped a shot to present Younger the lead heading down the final.
LAST HOLE DRAMA
Then, drama. Younger’s third shot from the tough discovered the water as a playoff seemed to be on the playing cards in Delhi. However after De Roey was unable to stand up and down from in need of the inexperienced, Younger dialled in a implausible wedge shot from the drop zone to salvage a bogey and clinch a one-stroke victory with a closing level-par 72.
I’m in shock,” mentioned Younger, whose solely different LET victory got here on the Swiss Women Open in 2022. “It’s my second win, but it surely’s nonetheless as vital as some other. They don’t occur fairly often as an expert golfer.
“Manon is a superb good friend of mine and we had been battling all day. It’s by no means straightforward to beat a good friend, however she had one a win earlier this 12 months, so it was my flip!”
“I do know I had spherical (on Saturday) and I used to be feeling good about (Sunday), however I really didn’t hit it nice all day. Placing was the important thing. Me and my caddie had been studying the greens nice all day.”
The consequence noticed Younger climb to twelfth on the LET Order of Benefit.
