Justin Rose Ladies' Series, Moor Park Golf Club
-3 M MacLaren 69; -1 E Young, S Fuller (AM)
Selected: Level G Dryburgh, C Frankish, S Evans; +1 C Hull
Two-time LET winner Meghan MacLaren won the event at Moor Park Golf Club with a three-under-par 69, which included an eagle, five birdies and a two-shot penalty.
MacLaren was coasting at six-under-par through ten before a double-bogey the 11th after playing a wrong ball and two successive bogeys from the 12th dropped her back to two-under. She recovered some ground with a birdie at the 15th and finished with three pars to win by two shots.
Elizabeth Young, a co-founder of the series, and Samantha Fuller, one of three amateurs invited to join the field, both shot a one-under-par 71 to finish tied for second place. Young, who was also the runner-up in the opening event after losing out to Charley Hull in a playoff, leads the Order of Merit ahead of Hull and MacLaren.
Scotland's Gemma Dryburgh finished tied for fourth after a level-par 72.
Charley Hull ended tied-seventh after mixing six birdies with seven bogeys in an eventful one-over-par 73. She was one of three players to play 36 holes, having played in the Worplesdon Charity Pro-Am before driving 35-miles to compete at Moor Park.
After her win, Meghan MacLaren, who only returned to competitive golf last week after the global pandemic forced a three month break, said:
“I think everybody felt a bit more comfortable this week. We were thrown in at the deep end last week, because the course was really tough, and this one was tough as well, but you start to get your edge back, bit by bit."
“It’s just nice. We all enjoy being here and you see the same faces, so it’s a really enjoyable atmosphere."
“For someone like Justin Rose to come out and sponsor this and say the things that he did and just give us some respect, it’s meant the world to all of us. To turn that into action is something that we will all be grateful for, for a very long time."
"Just getting to play: it’s nice to be out here again.”
The next event in the Justin Rose Ladies' Series is at Buckinghamshire Golf Club on Thursday 2 July.
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