Emma Nilsson earns second LETAS victory
REPORT BY BETHAN CUTLER
LET Media Manager
Sweden’s
Emma Nilsson claimed her second Ladies European Tour Access Series
(LETAS) title of the season at the Ladies Norwegian Challenge, with a
winning total of
three-under-par, after the event was shortened to 36 holes due to heavy
rain.
After
a week of adverse weather, conditions were tough for the final round on
Thursday, with the additional morning rain making Oslo’s Losby golf
course play much
longer than usual, with little to no run on the fairways.
It
was an exciting final round as Norwegian amateur Tonje Daffinrud and
LETAS order of merit leader Isabella Ramsay both challenged the leader
before Norway’s Rachel
Margrethe Raastad came through the field with three birdies in her last
five holes for a final round 70 to end in second place on
one-under-par.
Nilsson,
from Solvesborgs Golfklubb, shot a final round of 72, containing three
birdies, a bogey and a double.
She started well with a birdie on the
fifth, where
she played an approach shot to within 50cm of the hole using a pitching
wedge. Missing the seventh fairway with her driver resulted in a
double bogey, but the young Swede recovered with a birdie on the par-4
ninth, where she played another excellent approach
shot and made the turn in 35 strokes, with a level par front nine.
She bogeyed the 10th hole but saved her best until last by making a birdie putt of 12 metres for a level par round of 72 and a two shot victory.
“It
was really fun and I’m very pleased, especially after winning the
Pilsen Golf Challenge in July,” said Nilsson.
“I played the course when I
was 12 in the Junior
Cup between Sweden and Norway which was my first big tournament so I
have really good memories here.”
Nilsson
has been a consistent performer this season, not finishing outside the
top 30 in her seven starts on LETAS.
A win at the recent Pilsen Golf
Challenge propelled
the young Swede into the top five of the LETAS Order of Merit, a
position she has further cemented with her win in Norway.
Ramsay
and Caroline Rominger of Switzerland tied for third on level par, while
Spanish amateur Marta Sanz Barrio continued her impressive form by
finishing in solo
fifth place a week after her maiden win on the tour.
FINAL TOTALS
Par 144 (2x72)
141 - Emma Nilsson (SWE) 69 72
143 - Rachel Raastad (NOR) 73 70
144 - Caroline Rominger (SWI) 72 72, Isabella Ramsay (SWE) 71 73
145 - Marta Sanz Barrio (ESP) 75 70
146 - Vittoria Valvassori (ITA) 75 71
147 - Johanna Gustavsson (SWE) 73 74
148 - Valdis Thora Jonsdottir (ISL) 74 74, Daisy Nielsen (DNK) 75 73, Julie Tvede (DNK) 74 74, Caroline Martens (NOR) 72 76
149 - Tonje Daffinrud (NOR) (am) 72 77, Sofia Ljungqvist (SWE) 74 75, Nina Muehl (AUT) 76 73, Georgia Hall (ENG) 75 74
150 - Gemma Webster (SCO) 76 74, Amber Ratcliffe (ENG) 75 75
151
- Mariell Bruun (NOR) 72 79, Kiran Matharu (ENG) 76 75, Sanna Nuutinen
(FIN) 77 74, Lina Boqvist (SWE) 79 72, Isabell Gabsa (GER) 75 76
152 - Antonella Cvitan (SWE) 76 76, Cecilie Lundgreen (NOR) 76 76
153
- Jane Turner (SCO) 77 76, Astrid Vayson De Pradenne (FRA) 76 77, Lien
Willems (BEL) 77 76, Annika Nykanen (FIN) 72 81, Natalie Wille (SWE) 75
78, Kym Larratt
(ENG) 76 77, Jessica Karlsson (SWE) 74 79, Amanda Mattsson (SWE) 74 79
154
- Laure Sibille (FRA) 77 77, Franziska Friedrich (GER) 82 72, Carmen
Alonso (ESP) 78 76, Anna Dahlberg Soderstrom (SWE) 76 78
155 - Maria Beautell (ESP) 81 74, Viva Schlasberg (SWE) 74 81, Lisa Anderson (SWE) 80 75
156 - Melanie Maetzler (SWI) 82 74, Sofia Berglund (SWE) 80 76, Anna Rossi (ITA) 77 79
157
- Anjelika Hammar (SWE) 79 78, Patricia Lobato Moreno (ESP) 77 80, Emma
Tayler (ENG) 77 80, Katy McNicoll (SCO) 76 81, Emma Westin (SWE) 81 76,
Anna Christina
Kindgren (COL) 77 80, Jess Wilcox (ENG) 80 77, Lynn Carlsson (SWE) 78
79
158
- Sara Ardstrom (SWE) 76 82, Lina Elmsater (SWE) 79 79, Maria Palacios
(ESP) 79 79, JI-HYUN Suh (ENG) 79 79, Sara Djos (SWE) 80 78, Rachel
Drummond (ENG) 78 80
159 - Laura Murray (SCO) 75 84, Elina Bergvall (SWE) 81 78, Tracey Boyes (ENG) 78 81
160
- Elisabetta Bertini (ITA) 76 84, Linda Henriksson (FIN) 85 75, Galina
Rotmistrova (RUS) 80 80, Olivia Dose (SWE) 75 85, Michelle Thomson (SCO)
79 81, Rebecca
Green (AUS) 82 78
161 - Lauren Blease (ENG) 79 82, Sofia Bjorkman (SWE) 82 79, Leena Makkonen (FIN) 79 82
162 - Dorthea Forbrigd (NOR) 83 79
163 - Anna Svenstrup (SWE) 83 80, Christine Wolf (AUT) 83 80
164 - Maria Tulley (ENG) 78 86, Therese Nerpin (SWE) 81 83, Charlotte Ellis (ENG) 77 87, Marian De Miguel (ESP) 81 83
165 - Alexandra Alang (SWE) 78 87
166 - Madeleine Ziegert (SWE) 85 81
167 - Veslemoy Heramb (NOR) 85 82, Josefin Odenring (SWE) 81 86, Sandra Carlborg (SWE) 86 81, Guro Rambjoer (NOR) 81 86
168 - Sara Larsson (SWE) 83 85
169 - Diana Vazquez Paredes (ESP) 84 85
170 - Julie Loennechen (NOR) 84 86
RTD - Erika Holmen (SWE)
