Hertfordshire’s Alice Hewson is a now a two-time Women European Tour winner after defeating India’s Tvesa Malik in a playoff to win the Swiss Women Open.
With each gamers locked on 11-under par after a dramatic ultimate spherical – one which noticed Hewson fireplace a closing 6-under 65 – the 26-year-old made a clutch birdie on the primary playoff gap to earn her first victory for the reason that South African Girls’s Open in 2020.
The playoff adopted a spherical filled with drama at Golfpark Holzhäusern as 23 gamers sat inside three pictures of the lead with 9 holes to go. Hewson – who was three behind Spain’s Fatima Fernandez Cano previous to play – made only one birdie on the entrance 9 earlier than coming alive on the closing stretch birdying the twelfth and fifteenth.
Then, fireworks on the par-5 seventeenth, Hewson slam dunking her bunker shot for eagle to tie Lauren Walsh’s goal of 10-under par following a ultimate spherical 64. One gap later and Hewson would dial in an impressive strategy to birdie the closing 18th and take the clubhouse lead.
It was then on the chasers to reply, Malik the decide of the bunch as she mimicked Hewson by pitching in from the sand on 17 for eagle and birdying 18 to tie her tally of 11-under par.
After Fernandez Cano was unable to covert her chip on 18 to affix the pair, it was again to the tee for the playoff. Malik noticed her strategy miss the inexperienced as Hewson hit the inexperienced once more, changing the birdie to seal victory and return to the winner’s circle in model.
“I used to be affected person all day,” Hewson mentioned. “I had given myself so could alternatives. So to see a pair drop coming in was good. I didn’t see a leaderboard till the sixteenth inexperienced. I assumed time to go birdie-birdie after which I acquired away with one on 17 with the slamdunk from the bunker!
“I’m a bit bit misplaced for phrases actually,” she added. “It’s been some time since I’ve been on this scenario. Coming from successful my first LET title on my tour debut 4 years, to now this – it’s been fairly a journey. Lots of ups and downs. There’s so many individuals to thank. There have been occasions when the assumption was undoubtedly lacking. I went by a little bit of a tough patch two-and-a-bit years in the past. So to be again right here successful at this time, I’m very grateful.”
In ending runner-up, Malik recorded her finest end on the LET and earns a spot at subsequent week’s Aramco Workforce Collection – London occasion. In a single day chief Fernandez Cano completed in a tie for third on 10-under par alongside Walsh.
