Tenerife Ladies’s Open: Sara Kouskova holds on to win by one shot and choose up back-to-back victories | Golf Information
Sara Kouskova is a two-time Women European Tour (LET) winner within the house of two occasions after the Olympian held her nerve to land the Tenerife Ladies’s Open.
Having claimed the Jabra Women Open a fortnight in the past, Kouskova carded a remaining spherical 71 at Abama Golf to see off German Helen Briem and clinch trophy quantity two of the season.
“It is wonderful,” the Czech star stated, who claimed victory with a successful rating of nine-under par. “I feel I am nonetheless on the 18th inexperienced processing it. To do it twice in a row, like this, I am speechless.”
One clear heading into the ultimate spherical, Kouskova acquired off to the most well liked of begins birdying her opening two holes in Tenerife to maneuver right into a three-shot lead.
As Patricia Isabel Schmidt made a surge elsewhere, the German birdied 5 of her first six holes as Kouskova added one other birdie on the par-five sixth earlier than dropping a shot on the scenic par-three seventh.
However after the flip the Czech star rapidly stormed clear, Kouskova firing sensible birdies on the tenth and eleventh to provide herself a four-shot lead over Schmidt, Briem and Emma Spitz.
4 pictures would quickly turn into 5 as her rivals faltered earlier than a dramatic end ensued. A bogey on the fifteenth moved Kouskova to 11-under par, with the 25-year-old making a nightmare double-bogey on the sixteenth after her strategy pitched behind a palm tree.
One gap forward, Briem made a two-putt birdie on the quick par-5 seventeenth to slender the hole to only one. However because the solar shone brightly on Abama Golf, Kouskova held her nerve making back-to-back pars to seal the one-shot victory.
“I did not assume I hit that dangerous of a shot on 16,” the Olympian stated. “However something can occur on this golf course. It rolled down so hill so it was very powerful. It is not simple on this course so I am glad it is over now!”
With the victory, Kouskova joins compatriots Klara Davidson Spilkova and Jana Melichova as the one Czech gamers to win twice on the LET. She additionally follows Mimi Rhodes’ lead in securing back-to-back victories in 2025.
Within the Order of Advantage, Kouskova additionally jumps to second place, 192.92 factors behind chief Rhodes who completed T20 in Tenerife.
With Briem ending second on eight-under par, the trio of Spitz, Noora Komulainen and residential favorite Ana Pelaez Trivino ended the week in a tie for third on seven-under par. The end is Komulainen’s finest on the LET after 180 begins.
Schmidt and Shannon Tan shared sixth on six-under par. Six gamers rounded out the top-10 on five-under par.
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