Spanish Carla Bernat Escuder recovered from third place with a partial of 68 (-4), for a total of 204 (68 68 68, -12) shots, and triumphed in Georgia in the sixth edition of the Augusta National Women's Amateur, where the Italian Carolina Melgrati ranked 25th with 217 (72 70 75, +1).
Carla Bernat Escuder, results
The tournament is also known as the "women's Masters" because the final round was played on the course (par 72) that hosts the Masters Tournament, the first men's Major of the season (April 10-13), after the first two were played at the Champions Retreat Golf Club (par 72) in Evans.
The winner, a 21-year-old from Castelln de la Plana, a student at Kansas State University, was very consistent with her trio of 68 (-4), the only one in the history of the event to have completed three rounds under 70 strokes, and scored six birdies in the closing stages, against two bogeys, which allowed her to narrowly overtake the American Asterisk Talley, second with 205 (-11). In third place with 207 (-9) was the English Lottie Woad, world number one, defending champion and at the top after two rounds. In fourth place with 208 (-8) were Catherine Park, the Spanish Andrea Revuelta and the Thai Eila Galitsky and in seventh with 209 (-7) Megha Ganne, who had finished at the top of the opening round, and Kiara Romero, co-leader with Woad after 36 holes.
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Carolina Melgrati, 22 years old from Monza, member of the Golf Club Milano, at her third appearance, conducted a good race rewarded by being included among the 32 competitors who had the privilege of playing at the Augusta National wanted by the great Bobby Jones. Caterina Don, 50th with 148 (75 73, +4), and Francesca Fiorellini, 58th with 150 (77 73, +6) were cut. The Italians have always been present at the tournament in which 72 competitors selected among the best in the world are admitted, invitations that have rewarded the athletes and at the same time gratified the entire national movement.
The first documents attesting to the existence of rules of golf date back to March 1744. The rules were produced for a competition to be held at a Scottish golf club, and contained 13 points in total.[3] Initially, writing the rules was the responsibility of each individual club and so they varied depending on where the game was played.
