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 beneath – 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 document 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 carry off Talley, who additionally shot a four-under-par ultimate spherical.
Talley, 16, holed her second shot from the 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 stored her nerve to par the final.
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.
