Stephanie holds her nerve on last to become first Lady

STEPHANIE MEADOW, a 19-year-old from Jordanstown, near Belfast, yesterday won the Lady Puerto Rico Classic women’s college golf tournament in her first year as a student at the University of Alabama.

Stephanie, who moved with her family to the US when she was 14 to enhance her golf prospects, won a host of American junior tournaments as a pupil at the Hank Haney International Junior Golf Academy on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.

Named as a reserve to last year’s GB and Ireland team for the Curtis Cup match at Essex County Club, Massachusetts, Stephanie’s victory will enhance her prospects of a first GB & I cap in the Vagliano Trophy match against the Continent of Europe at Royal Porthcawl in June.