Palma (Spain), 19 Nov: India’s Avani Prashanth carded one-over 73 in the final round to sign off with a creditable 13th place at the Mallorca Ladies Golf Open at Golf Son Muntaner here.
\nThe 17-year-old Indian was even par through 15 holes with the 16th and 17th, the two holes she had birdied on each of the first two days, ahead of her.
\nHowever, she dropped a shot on both of them and despite a birdie on the last, carded 73.
\nAvani (6v9-72-73) finished at 2-under and was Tied-13th. It was still a fine result for the teen, who will play in the Final Stage of the LET Q-School and turn professional.
\nDiksha Dagar (71-72-75) ended 2-over for the week and Tied-31st and slipped to third on the Race to Costa Del Sol with the Tour Championships due next.
\nShe still has a chance to win the Order of Merit with a win in the final event, as she trails Trichat Cheenglab, who went to the top with her second place and Celine Boutier is second. Diksha is now third.
\nLadies European Tour rookie Alexandra F\u00f6rsterling collected her second title in two months.
\nThe 23-year-old from Berlin, Germany, carded rounds of 69, 67 and 67 for a 54-hole total of 203, 13-under-par and an emphatic five-stroke victory over fellow rookie Trichat Cheenglab from Thailand.
\nAnne van Dam finished a shot further back in solo third place, with Caroline Hedwall and Marta Sanz Barrio tied for fourth.
\nSecond round leader Chloe Williams shared sixth with first-round leader Kristyna Napoleaova and Lee-Anne Pace.
\nF\u00f6rsterling becomes only the second player to earn two victories on Tour this season, having won the VP Bank Swiss Ladies Open in September.
\nThe only other player who has won twice on the LET this year is world No.3, C\u00e9line Boutier, from France.
\nWith her win, F\u00f6rsterling earned 500 points and moves from 17th to fifth on the Race to Costa del Sol and from third to first on the Rookie of the Year Rankings.
\nWith her second-place finish, Cheenglab earned 320 points and moves to the top of the Race to Costa del Sol rankings.
\nThe LET remains in Spain for next week\u2019s Andalucia Costa del Sol Open de Espa\u00f1a, the final event on the 2023 Race to Costa del Sol.
\nThe top five players, who all have a chance to win the Race, are now Cheenglab, Boutier, Diksha, Johanna Gustavsson and F\u00f6rsterling, who would need to win the last event to have a chance at the Race title. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Palma (Spain), 19 Nov: India’s Avani Prashanth carded one-over 73 in the final round to sign off with a creditable 13th place at the Mallorca Ladies Golf Open at Golf Son Muntaner here. The 17-year-old Indian was even par through 15 holes with the 16th and 17th, the two holes she had birdied on each […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-228842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}