The escuner of Carla Bernat of Spain won the sixth national amateur of the women of Augusta

Carla Bernat Escuder shot 4-me on 68 on Saturday at the Augusta National Golf Club to win the sixth edition of the National Women’s Amateur in Augusta.

Need two shots at the back of the green in the 18th 18th, Bernat Escuder – like the Spaniards Seve Ballesteros, Jose Maria Olazabal, Sergio Garcia and Jon Rahm before her – managed the moment and converted the backup.

“It’s incredible. I feel on the moon. Right now, I don’t think my brain has treated that I have won, “she said.

Bernat Escuder finished at 12 years under the peer, an elite of Asterisk Talley, 16, who also drew 68 years. The defending champion Lottie Woad (72) finished solo third.

By starting the last round at the back of Woad and Kiara Romero (74, T-7), Bernat Escuder caught the advantage outright when she sorted the eighth by 5.

The eldest of the state of Kansas, whose personal coach is Garcia’s father, Victor, then turned his approach to the TAP-in range to the neuth by 4 to turn in 33 and lead by two to 11 sous.

She has never dragged nor equaled the nine seconds, which started with a brilliant backup in peer in the 10th.

“Today, I just tried to play a fairly good nine holes, and I knew that the tournament had started No. 10, so when I hit the second blow on No. 10, I said to myself, damn,” she said about the green right of the bunker.

But preparing to strike his third, the words of the nearby friend Jose Luis Ballester, the reigning American amateur champion, came to mind.

“Yeah, I thought about it on this one. I said to myself, if there was a blow that you are going to need hands back to hit him higher, as he told me, it’s this one. So yes, I appreciate this tip,” said Bernat Escuder, who launched 12 feet and made the backup.

Three holes later, in the 13th Fairway with his ball on a side slope, Bernat Escuder struck a fairway metal on the green and two strokes so that Birdie moves three away from the field.

While the Spaniard was in the process, Woad was not synchronized for a better part of the day. The champion last year led by two shots at the start of the first nine, but, as a Jim “Bones” Mackay course journalist, who helped Shepherd Phil Mickelson with three green jackets, at the 10th by 4, Woad “broke one of the ten commandments in Augusta National”, when his approach shot green.

Under a bush, Woad chose to take a drop of penalty and made a double bogey, falling three back.

A year ago, Woad observed three of his last four holes on the way to a victory. Having a similar race to repeat, she sorted up the 13th and hit her approach shot a few centimeters on the 14th par-4, offering an ironic smile, knowing that she did not hit the ball of her best.

The deficit was two, but short-lived while Bernat Escuder in Birda the 15th par-5 of the future group.

Woad could not match this Birdie at 15, leaving his just shy putt of the hole again. Any chance of a second victory ended with Bogey at No. 16.

“I am quite frustrated. I played a decent t-shirt on green, I haven’t really got stubborn, and that’s what it resisted,” she said.

“You can’t win every time. I can be happy enough of how I played this week. Like the happening, it was just to be in the running.

Talley, meanwhile, obtained another finalist in a major amateur event, because she lost in the US Girls’ Junior final of last year and the American female amateur.

However, it was hardly a defeat. California’s teenager immediately equaled the head on Saturday by first making her second blow for Eagle at Par-4.

She then followed Bogeys consecutive to n ° 5 and 6 with birdies consecutive to n ° 7 and 8.

After seven consecutive pars, Talley sliced ​​the 16th in the par-3, then made an incredible “ 3 ” on the 17th, striking it Approach from trees And make the 20 feet for birdie. She exceeded the 18th – after hitting her 17th green from La Ronde – to display 68, and was only one when she signed her card while Bernat Escuder in Bogey on the 17th.

No playoffs were necessary, however, because Bernat Escuder performed perfectly at the last time, the final touch touches a 4 -foot for the peer. Talley did not leave with a trophy, but she left Augusta armed with trust.

“It’s the best. It will always be the best. I think I’m going to wear it with me throughout the year and throughout my career, “she said. “I’m just going to wear this on my round and win with me.”