Swiss Chiara Tamburlini won the Lacoste Ladies Open de France with 206 (66 73 67, -7) shots, beating Australian Kirsten Rudgeley (206 68 67 71, -7) with a par on the first play-off hole. In the Ladies European Tour tournament, now in its 34th edition and played at the Golf Barriere (par 71) in Deauville, France, Virginia Elena Carta offered a good performance for the second consecutive week, finishing fourth with 208 (67 72 69, -5), after having been in the running for the win, as had happened last week in the La Sella Open (seventh).
On that occasion, she never went lower than fourth place and closed her run with a score of 69 (-2, six birdies, two bogeys and a double bogey), among the best partials of the round.
Tamburini, results
Behind the two protagonists, Belgian Manon De Roey, third with 207 (-6), leader in the clubhouse for a long time, where she had arrived early at the end of a comeback from eighth place with a 66 (-5, seven birdies, two bogeys), the lowest score on the round of the day also obtained by two other athletes outside the top ten.
Together with Carta, the Finnish Noora Komulainen and the English Annabel Dimmock and in seventh position with 210 (-3) the French Pauline Roussin-Bouchard, the Spanish Nuria Iturrioz, the Australian Kelsey Bennett, the Welsh Chloe Williams and the English Thalia Martin.
In 12th with 211 (-2) the Swedish Johanna Gustavsson, who was defending the title. It didn't benefit much, but it was certainly satisfying for the South African Cara Gorlei, the "hole in one" who scored first round on hole 5 (par 3, 116 yards, 9 iron), her second of the season after the one in the German Masters in May.
In fact, she finished in last place (63rd) with 225 (+12). Chiara Tamburlini (71, par, four birdies, four bogeys) and Kirsten Rudgeley (67, -4, five birdies, one bogey) overtook De Roey both with the last birdie of the day on holes 17 and 16 respectively.
Chiara Tamburlini, 24 years old from St. Gallen, after a good career as an amateur turned professional in 2023 starting from the LET Access where she achieved two successes (PGA Championship Gothenburg and Rose Ladies Open) and with the third place in the order of merit she moved up to the LET.
She immediately stood out and before this second title, after the one in the Joburg Ladies Open, she was already at the top of the ranking. In addition to the successes, she also achieved six top ten finishes this season. She was rewarded with a check for 56,250 euros out of a prize pool of 375,000 euros.
The only Italian to win the competition was Veronica Zorzi (2005, 2006), who is also one of the three players who achieved the double with the common characteristic that for all of them it was consecutive: the New Zealander Lynnette Brooky (2002, 2003) and the Spanish Azahara Muoz (2013, 2014).
Only two proettes have achieved the hat-trick: the French Marie-Laure De Lorenzi (1988, 1993 and 1995) and the English Trish Johnson (1996, 1999, 2010). A cursed tournament for Diana Luna, four times second (2010, 2011, 2012, 2016), and same position for Federica Dass (1993).
