Aditi Ashok turned in one of the dominating performances on the Women European Tour with a nine-shot win on the Magical Kenya Women Open on Sunday. It was the fourth win on the Women European Tour (LET) for the 24-year-old Aditi, who now performs totally on the Women PGA in america. Aditi, who will flip 25 subsequent month, additionally ended a protracted drought as she final gained in Abu Dhabi in November 2017. Her first two titles got here in successive begins — on the Hero Girls’s Indian Open after which the next week in Qatar Women Open.
Aditi, who has her father Ashok on the bag, shot rounds of 67-70-69-74 and totalled 12-under 280 on the Par-73 Vipingo Ridge, the place she had completed runners-up in 2019, the 12 months the occasion was first held.
Her document within the LET is superb as she has gained 4 instances in 60 begins and completed within the top-10 as many as 20 instances, which implies she has a top-10 as soon as in each three tournaments.
With this win, she might be in search of her maiden LPGA victory, which might make her the primary Indian to win on the LPGA, simply as she was the primary to do on the Women European Tour.
The lanky Aditi, who had gained skilled occasions at dwelling even whereas being an beginner, got here inside a whisker of an Olympic medal on the Tokyo Video games. She completed fourth however was feted by a complete nation.
At the same time as Aditi held the highlight, India’s prime beginner, teenager Avani Prashanth shot 1-under 72 on the ultimate day and led to top-10 as she was tied ninth, whereas Amandeep Drall (77) completed tied-Fifty fifth.
Aditi, taking part in her first occasion in additional than two months, took a three-shot lead within the first spherical after which prolonged it to 5 after two rounds and made it six after the third. She completed the occasion 9 photographs forward of Alice Hewson of England (72), who completed birdie-birdie, and Thai teen April Angurasaranee (77).
Aditi might nicely have gained by a double-digit margin however dropped photographs on the fag finish. She bogeyed Par-5 fifteenth and Par-3 seventeenth, however that was merely educational in per week the place Aditi dominated the sector.
Beginning the ultimate day with a six-shot lead at a course the place wildlife, together with giraffes, are a characteristic, Aditi performed strong and regular golf via the week. She had two bogeys on the primary day, one on the second and none on the third. She dropped three photographs on the ultimate day and her 1-over 74 within the ultimate spherical was her solely over par spherical.
She opened with a birdie on the primary, gave again that shot on the eighth however picked a birdie on the eleventh to be 1-under via 11 holes on the ultimate day. She dropped two photographs in the direction of the tip.
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