McCarthy turns on the style in Scotland
The Irish Girls U18 champion who plays out of the Forrest Little club in Dublin, fired five birdies in a bogey-free second nine for a six-under par 66 and a 36-hole aggregate of 138.
That gave her a three-stroke victory over Austria’s Emma Spitz, who was one of the three overnight leaders a stroke ahead of McCarthy.
The Dublin teenager started her second and final round in style with back-to-back birdies and then after six pars recorded her only bogey of the round, a five on the ninth.
But that scintillating homeward display took her clear of the field and she was able to celebrate having carded the lowest score of the tournament.
The Lurgan pair of Niamh McSherry and Annabel Wilson also have reason to be pleased with their early-season showing as they both returned aggregates of 148 — four over par — and they finished joint seventh.
Valerie Clancy of Killarney finished on 155 while Lisa O’Shea (Shannon) and Mairead Martin (Killarney) slumped to 158 with Cork’s Rachael Thompson on 167 and Elisa Corcoran from Grange on 171.
Sara Byrne from Douglas had a 174.
Carin Koch has been appointed as European captain for the 2015 Solheim Cup.
The Swede will lead the continental team as they bid to achieve an unprecedented third straight victory over the United Statesj, at Leon-Rot in Germany.
Koch was twice a winner as she played in four successive Solheim Cups (2000, 2002, 2003, 2005) and was also a vice-captain as Europe beat the US by a record 18-10 scoreline in Colorado last year.
One of the 43-year-old’s first decisions has been to name former world number one and compatriot Annika Sorenstam as one of her vice-captains.
Koch boasts a strong 10-3-3 win-loss-draw record from her four Solheim appearances as a player and holed the match-clinching putt at Loch Lomond in 2000.
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