Annabel Dimmock accomplished her comeback from damage by ending her five-year winless run on the Girls 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 below 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 say her second LET win and first because the 2019 Jabra Girls Open.
“I am simply shell-shocked and over the moon proper now,” stated Dimmock, who had been sidelined from the sport for eight months on account of a thumb damage. I’ve labored actually arduous to get myself again and I’m happy with myself.”
Dimmock began her day with back-to-back birdies then cancelled out a bogey on the twelfth by choosing up a shot on the subsequent to drag stage with Roussin-Bouchard, who had charged up the sector with seven birdies in her first 13 holes.
Roussin-Bouchard added one other birdie on the fifteenth however three-putted the following to fall again to 18 below, earlier than becoming a member of Dimmock in benefiting from the par-five seventeenth to equal the bottom spherical of the day.
“It was simply good golf throughout,” Roussin-Bouchard stated after shedding the play-off. “I missed a couple of alternatives, however I made others. It was nice. I went for it in that play-off. You attempt issues, generally it really works out and generally it would not.”
Finland’s Ursula Wikstrom completed a shot again in third after failing to discover a final-hole birdie that may 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 below.
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