Not yet 20 years old, Marine Griffaut gave himself a superb birthday present at six days of stepping into a new decade. The amateur player, trained in Meaux-Boutigny golf course (77), passed through the France pole at the Golf National and now wearing the colors of Cannes Mougins and his texas state university in the United States, in fact won this Sunday the second edition of the Montauban Ladies Open. While playing her very first professional tournament, Marine Griffaut concluded her week with a solid card of 70 (-2), which offered her the trophy. Olympe de Gouges with a total of -7 and three strokes ahead of the Czech amateur Tereza Melecka (68). “I can not find my words … I fully savor this moemnt! ” she declared a few moments after her coronation. “My goal was to simply cross the cut. Yesterday I played -6 and got into position, so this morning I told myself that I could do it, that I could take this opportunity. And I believed in myself! “
After Agathe Laisne twice victorious last fall, it is therefore a new French amateur who wins on the LET Access Series. Fans are also in force at the top of the leaderboard, since Yvie Chaucheprat, leader at the start this Sunday, took third place at -2 after a last complicated lap in 77 (+5), while Justine Fournand (73) and Lois Lau (74) share the sixth place in the par total, and that Nastasia Nadaud (72) is ninth at +1.
