Antalya, Turkey (SportsNetwork.com) – Valentine Derrey carded a 3-under 70 on Sunday to come from behind and win the Turkish Airlines Ladies Open.<\/p>\n
Derrey earned her first career win on the Ladies European Tour at 7-under-par 212.<\/p>\n
Malene Jorgensen (73) finished in second place at 5-under, while Charley Hull (72) took third at minus-4. Maria Balikoeva (72) and Vikki Laing (76) shared fourth at 3-under.<\/p>\n
Second-round leader Klara Spilkova tripped to a 5-over 78 during her final round at National Golf Club to fall into a tie with Sophie Walker (72) for sixth place at 2-under 217.<\/p>\n
Derrey entered the final round three strokes behind Spilkova and maintained the same deficit through four holes as Derrey birdied the first and fourth to move to 6-under and Spilkova rolled in birdies at the second and third to reach minus-9.<\/p>\n
Derrey then fell four shots off the pace with a bogey at the par-3 fifth, but Spilkova’s advantage dipped back to two when she bogeyed the sixth and seventh.<\/p>\n
After Derrey birdied the 10th and Spilkova birdied the 11th, Spilkova posted a bogey at the 12th to fall back to 7-under.<\/p>\n
Derrey answered with a birdie at the 13th to meet Spilkova atop the leaderboard and was handed the outright lead when Spilkova recorded a double- bogey 7 at the 15th.<\/p>\n
Spilkova went on to bogey the 15th, 17th and 18th to fall well off the pace as Derrey parred her final five holes to roll to the victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Antalya, Turkey (SportsNetwork.com) – Valentine Derrey carded a 3-under 70 on Sunday to come from behind and win the Turkish Airlines Ladies Open. Derrey earned her first career win on the Ladies European Tour at 7-under-par 212. Malene Jorgensen (73) finished in second place at 5-under, while Charley Hull (72) took third at minus-4. Maria […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lpga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}