The New South Wales Open was played on the 18th with the victory of the Swedish Julia Engström, who took advantage of the four bogeys on the last six holes of the Belgian Manon de Roey. With a card of 70, Agathe Sauzon finished 12e and best French.

the Swedish Julia Engström

Julia Engström, winner of the NSW Open 2020 in Australia. @LET

She was however 5 strokes ahead this morning before the last lap. A margin of 4 strokes with six holes from the end. Two more shots at the start of the 2th. And a better point on the leaderboard before the last hole. The lead of Belgian Manon de Roey evaporated like snow in the sun, that of New South Wales in Australia, during the last dramatic holes of the New South Wales Open. By planting the flag with her 17 iron on the par 5 of 3, Julia Engström added a little more pressure to the native of Antwerp, whose dreams of a first victory over the LET were definitively collapsed with a bogey.

Ironically, the Swede had experienced a similar disarray last December, at the Magical Kenya Open. With a 7-shot lead at the start of the 4th round, the 2017 rookie of the year finally finished third with a last card of 74. " I can not believe it, testified Engström after his fantastic recovery. And to think that during the first three laps, I had each time made a bogey on the 18. I did not expect to see such a good shot until I heard the reaction of the crowd. " Thanks to this victory, Julia Engström, already 7e last week in Bonville, takes the lead of the Race to Costa Del Sol 2020, the classification of the LET. Perhaps the start of a great career for this young talent who will only be 19 at the end of the month and who is already sending a lot of driving (she is currently second in distance driving behind Anne Van Dam , according to the statistics).

Among the French, Agathe Sauzon has raised the bar. After a bad third day and a card of 78, which had made him tumble from the 2e the 18e place, the Drômoise played 2 shots under par (70) this Sunday and went up in 12e position. It is moreover one of the few to have beaten today the difficult and narrow course of Dubbo Golf Club, the other French women having all played above par. The next leg of LET will take place in two weeks, in South Africa, on the Westlake course in Cape Town.

Frank Crudo