Another great performance by Alessia Nobilio, who has just turned professional, who ranked fourth with 205 (68 67 70, -11) shots in the Lavaux Ladies Open, the penultimate tournament of the season of the LET Access, the second European women's circuit, played at the Golf de Lavaux (par 72) in Puidoux, Switzerland.
The English Mimi Rhodes won with 200 (-16) shots (68 69 64), who finished the match on par with her compatriot Billie-Jo Smith (69 68 63) and then overtook her in the play-off. Both protagonists made a strong comeback, with a very high pace, overtaking the Italian and the Slovakian Katarina Drocarova, who were leading the group after two rounds.
Rhodes moved up from third place with a 64 (-8, eight birdies) and her opponent moved up from fifth place with a 63 (-9, one eagle, seven birdies), the best partial of the round. The winner, a 22-year-old from Taunton, won her first title in her ninth appearance on the tour (six this year with two other top-five finishes) and received a cheque for 7,200 on a prize pool of 45,000.
With 500 points earned, she rose to ninth place in the money list and in the last event (Iberdrola Calatayud Ladies Open, October 3-5, Spain) she can still hope to enter the top six of the ranking who will have the card for the Ladies European Tour 2025.
In third place with 204 (-12) is the Norwegian Tina Mazarino, in fourth with Nobilio also the Icelandic Gudrun Bjorgvinsdottir, in sixth with 207 (-9) the Swedish Kajsa Arwefjall and in seventh with 208 (-8) Katarina Drocarova.
Alessia Nobilio, 23 years old from Milan, is at her fifth race of the season on the circuit and seventh in total. In 2021 she ranked third in the Roma Alps Letas Open. Having entered the tour in August, she immediately obtained second place in the Ahlsell Trophy and third in the Destination Gotland Ladies Open.
Now a new top 4 after a strong performance in which, as mentioned, she was at the top in the middle round, after recovering from the initial eighth position with a 67 (-5, seven birdies, two bogeys), the best score of the second day.
She concluded with a 70 (-2, four birdies, two bogeys). The following went out at the cut: Marta Spiazzi, 65th with 148 (74 74, +4), Caterina Tatti (76 74) and Erika De Martini (73 77), 77th with 150 (+6), and Emma Lundgren, 90th with 152 (78 74, +8).
