England international Hannah Screen has won her first Telegraph BMW Junior Championship girls' title at Portugal’s famous Quinta do Lago resort.
England international Hannah Screen has won her first Telegraph BMW Junior Championship girls' title at Portugal’s famous Quinta do Lago resort.
It was a tight affair all the way down the closing stretch between overnight leader Screen and first round leader Lily May Humphreys.
Screen looked shaken after four-putting from close range on the seventh hole, but three birdies in five holes calmed the nerves and the rising Berkhamsted star held on to win by two strokes.
"It was a bonus I even qualified for this event and to follow in Alice Hewson's footsteps, I'm absolutely thrilled," said Screen. "I'm incredibly proud and it's such a good platform for what lies ahead.''
Norwich’s Amelia Williamson, who qualified top of the Telegraph leaderboard over the summer, settled for third. Cloe Frankish, who will head to the Ladies Tour Qualifying School next week, finished fourth.
Hailed by McGinley as one of junior golf’s Majors, the tournament was being staged for the third year running on Quinta do Lago’s North Course, one of three 18-hole championship courses at the luxury resort.
Officially opened by McGinley in October 2014, the 6,156m-layout has quickly risen to become one of the new stars of European golf, and played a key role in Quinta do Lago be named as Portugal’s best golf resort in Golf World’s inaugural rankings of the Top 100 Resorts in Continental Europe 2016/17.
For more details about the 2016 Telegraph BMW Junior Championship, call 0344 693 1885 or go to http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/sport/juniorgolf/
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