India’s Diksha Dagar turned in the most effective rounds of the ultimate day, an excellent 4-under 67, to log out at Tied-15 on the IOA Golf Classic on the Alaqua Country Club right here.
The two-time Ladies European Tour champion and third on the Merit record in 2023, Diksha had eight birdies, a double bogey and one other late bogey as she made an enormous soar up the leaderboard on the Epson Tour occasion.
Diksha has been in nice kind with two Top-10s on the LET to date and she’s going to play one other week on the Epson Tour, as she tees up at Atlantic Beach subsequent week.
Diksha, who began the week with a modest 75, squeezed contained in the minimize with a second spherical 71. And then she produced an excellent spherical on the difficult course.
She birdied first, sixth and eighth however suffered a setback with a double bogey on Par-5 ninth. Four extra birdies adopted on the again 9 on tenth, eleventh, thirteenth and sixteenth earlier than she dropped a shot on Par-4 seventeenth and closed with a par.
She discovered every fairway on the ultimate day and wanted simply 27 putts as in opposition to 32 and 30 on the primary two days. She additionally reached the inexperienced in regulation in 15 of the 18 holes, approach higher on the primary two days.
Jessica Peng, who was sitting 4 pictures behind second-round chief Lindsey McCurdy, shot an excellent 67 with 5 birdies in opposition to one bogey to win the title.
In distinction, McCurdy, who ended second, scored 72 and misplaced by one shot. Jessica (66-69-67) totalled 11-under and McCurdy (66-65-72) completed at 10-under.
The victory for Peng got here after being an expert for seven years, regardless that her rookie season with the Epson Tour was in 2022.
Korea’s Kum-Kang Park (68-68-68) was third and Dewi Weber (66-66-73) was fourth.
