McVeigh battles to Open victory

DANIELLE MCVEIGH produced a dramatic rearguard action to snatch the Ladies British Open Amateur stroke-play title at Royal Aberdeen yesterday.

Five strokes adrift of long-time leader 15-year-old Wiltshire champion Hannah Turland turning for home for the final time, the 22-year-old Vagliano Cup player from Royal County Down overturned the deficit to win by one.

Turland tangled with the sand dunes to suffer back-to-back triple bogeys at the 11th and 12th and came home in an unhappy 44 – a birdie at the last could not save her from an agonising defeat.