{"id":3428,"date":"2022-12-07T15:30:09","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T15:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/linn-grant-swede-secures-european-tour-crown-as-caroline-hedwall-wins-in-spain\/"},"modified":"2022-12-07T15:30:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T15:30:10","slug":"linn-grant-swede-secures-european-tour-crown-as-caroline-hedwall-wins-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/linn-grant-swede-secures-european-tour-crown-as-caroline-hedwall-wins-in-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Linn Grant: Swede secures European Tour crown as Caroline Hedwall wins in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Linn Grant needed to equal or better the score of fellow Swede Maja Stark<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<\/thead>\n\n\n\n\n
-18<\/strong> C Hedwall (Swe), M Metraux (Sui); <\/span>-17 <\/strong>L Grant (Swe); <\/span>-16 <\/strong>L Maguire (Ire); <\/span>-15 <\/strong>A Hewson (Eng), C Fernandez (Spa); <\/span>-13 <\/strong>M Stark (Swe), CT Mulet (Spa), C Giganda (Spa)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Selected others: <\/span>-10 <\/strong>C Williams (Wal), C Gainer (Eng); <\/span>-5 <\/strong>G Cowley (Eng)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Linn Grant has won the Ladies European Tour title for the first time after finishing third at the season-ending Andalucia Costa del Sol Open de Espana.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Swede fired an eight-under 65 in the final round of an event won by compatriot Caroline Hedwall.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Hedwall beat Switzerland’s Morgane Metraux in a play-off to secure her first event victory in four years.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ireland’s Leona Maguire was fourth, while Alice Hewson of England ended in a tie for fifth.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maguire started the final round in a tie for second and a 69 left the world number 11 on 16 under, one ahead of Hewson and Spanish amateur Cayetana Fernandez.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cara Gainer finished on 10 under. with fellow English player Gabriella Cowley another five shots behind. <\/span><\/p>\n

Grant needed to equal or better the score of fellow Swede Maja Stark to win the Race to Costa Del Sol.<\/span><\/p>\n

Stark finished on 13 under after a final-round 68, leaving her four shots behind Grant, who is the fifth player to win both the Order or Merit and Rookie of the Year titles.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Caroline Hedwall’s victory was her seventh win on the Ladies European Tour<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hedwall carded a 67 on Sunday to finish on 18 under, level with overnight leader Metraux.<\/span><\/p>\n

The pair could not be separated after three play-off holes, before Hedwall prevailed with a birdie at the par-five 17th.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Linn Grant needed to equal or better the score of fellow Swede Maja Stark -18 C Hedwall (Swe), M Metraux (Sui); -17 L Grant (Swe); -16 L Maguire (Ire); -15 A Hewson (Eng), C Fernandez (Spa); -13 M Stark (Swe), CT Mulet (Spa), C Giganda (Spa) Selected others: -10 C Williams (Wal), C Gainer (Eng); […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3430,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3428\/revisions\/3430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}