The Golden Dagger of the 43rd Hassan II Trophy for Jeunghun Wang and the minaudière of the 22nd Lalla Meryem Cup for the Spaniard Nuria Iturrios. Isabelle Boineau 5th

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Nice performance for the French, Isabelle Boineau la Marseillaise stood out with a nice 5th place, Mathilda Cappeliez, still an amateur and Lucie André were 16th. On the men's side, it took two playoff holes in the fourth and final round to know the winner. Note the podium of Frenchman Clément Berardo who climbs to a good third place tied with the Englishman Robert Rock. His final score of -4 (284) puts him just one length behind Wang, the play-off winner of Spaniard Elvira.

Wang returned a last card of 69, bringing his final score to 283 (-5) at the end of the last round beating Nacho Elvira (283, -5), Frenchman Berardo Clément (284, -4) and Briton Robert Rock (284, -4).

On the pro side, however, Nuria Iturrios made a faultless and signed a superb card of 65 (-7) for a total score of 277 (-11). She is ahead of Florentyna Parker (ANG), with a card of 283 (-5), and Angle Yin (USA), who returned a card of 284 (-4). The two winners received their awards from Prince Moulay Rachid during the ceremony organized at the Royal Golf Dar Es Salam on May 8, 2016. Wang pockets the bonus of 250.000 euros while Nuria Iturrios leaves with a check for € 67.500.

This new edition of the Hassan II Trophy & the Lalla Meryem Cup was marked with a world first: pros and proets played at the same time. “A fine example to follow!” Declared the leaders of the European Tour and the Ladies European Tour.