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| Aled Greville and Lorna McClymont - Photo courtesy of the R&A |
Scotland’s Lorna McClymont and Welshman Aled Greville produced impressive final round displays to claim success in The R&A Foundation Scholars Tournament in St Andrews.
While McClymont held her nerve to defeat countrywoman Chloe Goadby at the second extra hole of a play-off and win the women’s event, Greville surged through the men’s field with a closing 65 on his first ever round on the Old Course.
McClymont (Milngavie) representing nearby SRUC Elmwood, and University of Birmingham student Greville came out on top in the two-day World Amateur Golf Ranking™ counting event, featuring 60 men and women students representing 24 universities from across the world.
By virtue of their respective victories, both players achieved automatic spots in the International Team to face the United States of America in the 2019 Arnold Palmer Cup match being played at Alotian, Arkansas from Friday 7 to Sunday 9 June.
Biggest ever win McClymont shared the overnight lead with Goadby (University of Stirling and a local member at St Regulus Ladies) after the opening 36 holes over the Eden Course and they couldn’t be separated after three-under-par rounds of 73 on the Old Course to post eight-under-par totals.
It was McClymont, 18, who went on to achieve the biggest win of her career to date, making an up and down from the Valley of Sin at the 18th, the second hole of overtime, while Goadby bogeyed.
She said, “It feels amazing, I’m struggling for words. I knew it would be tight the whole way around, with Nicola (Slater) as well, as she had a good front nine.
“I just tried to enjoy the play-off and thankfully managed to get up and down on the last. I’m in the Scottish Golf Academy and hope to keep progressing.”
Sparkling golf Jasmine MacKintosh (Robert Gordon University) and Nicola Slater (University of Stirling) shared third place on six-under-par.
WOMEN
Par 222 (Eden Course x 2, Old Course x 1)
214 L McClymont (Milngavie) 72 69 73, C Goadby (St Regulus Ladies) 70 71 73 (play-off)
216 J Mackintosh (Hazlehead) 74 68 74, N Slater (Lindrick) 71 71 74
219 P Brown (Worthing) 73 71 75, EM Laws (Norway) 69 73 77
220 C Casey (Hermitage) 73 74 73
221 H MacGarvie (Royal Troon) 75 70 76
225 E Toy (Carlyon Bay) 75 74 75
226 L Van Veggel (Maastricht) 78 70 78
227 R Thompson (Cork) 81 72 74, K Napoleaova (Pysely) 73 76 78
230 B-J Smith(Woodhall Spa) 74 76 80, M Dowling (Lucan) 73 76 81
231 F Clark (S Staffs) 78 75 78.
SELECTED TOTALS
238 J Rankine (Haggs Castle) 82 82 74
250 M M Richmond (Strathaven) 82 76 92
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