England’s Amy Taylor secured her breakthrough Women European Tour title with a dramatic one-shot win on the Women Italian Open.
The 23-year-old carded a three-under 69 on the ultimate day at Golf Nazionale, mixing six birdies with three bogeys to complete on 10 underneath and one away from Spain’s Maria Hernandez.
Taylor took a one-shot lead into the ultimate day and pulled away from the sphere with 4 birdies in a six-hole stretch from the third, solely to provide the chasing pack hope with bogeys on the eleventh and thirteenth.
Additional birdies on the 14th and sixteenth gave Taylor a two-shot cushion heading to the par-five final, the place a bogey was sufficient to take the trophy and safe her LET standing for the subsequent three years.
“I have no words at the moment!” she stated after the victory. “I am unable to actually consider it. Earlier this week I went to the [Trevi] fountain in Rome and I did throw a coin in and need that I might win! I did not inform anybody, nevertheless it got here true!
“I knew I had two putts for it when I was on the 18th green. Harry [Ewing] my caddie said, ‘just tap it down there’, and I hit it three-foot past! So he might have aged a bit because of me today, but I’m just happy I was able to hole the one coming back. I still won so it’s ok!”
Hernandez got here near a second LET title – and first since 2010 – due to ending her final-round 67 with an unimaginable chip-in eagle on the par-five 18th, whereas France’s Camille Chevalier claimed a share of third on seven underneath alongside Shannon Tan and Italian beginner Francesca Fiorellini.
5 gamers ended the week in a tie for sixth, a bunch which included Pia Babnik, Taylor’s enjoying accomplice Alessandra Fanali – who fired a five-under 67 – Emma Spitz, Kirsten Rudgeley and Diksha Dagar.
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