Lotta Wahlin Wins Maiden Victory In Turkey

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Lotta Wahlin Wins Maiden Victory In Turkey

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Lotta Wahlin wins the Turkish Ladies Open

Sweden’s Lotta Wahlin cruised to her maiden Ladies European Tour victory at the inaugural Garanti American Express Turkish Ladies Open on Sunday.

The 24-year-old carded rounds of 71, 71, 73 and 70 at the punishing National Golf Club in Antalya to win by 12 shots on seven under par.

It was the second largest winning margin in the LET’s 30-year history, Laura Davies winning the 1995 Guardian Irish Holidays Open by 16 shots.

“It’s fantastic. I’m so happy. I only understood I’d won on the 18th green because I didn’t think about it before then,” said Wahlin.

“I have been on tour for three years so I think it was time to win. I want to win three times this year so I’m going to keep on going.”

The 24-year-old from Linkoping carded rounds of 71, 71, 73 and 70 at the punishing National Golf Club in Antalya, Turkey, to win by 12 shots on a total of seven-under-par.

Another Swede, Johanna Westerberg (71), shared second with South African Stacy Lee Bregman (72) and Spaniard Paula Marti (74), who was eight shots back in outright second entering the final round.

Wahlin, who was the only player to finish below par for the tournament, led from start to finish and never faltered on a course featuring narrow fairways, numerous red pine trees and extremely hard greens. She extended her lead each day and became the second Swedish first time winner in only three events on the fledgling 2008 Ladies European Tour schedule, after Emma Zackrisson won the Open de Espana at Panoramica Golf and Country Club three weeks ago.
Lotta won a non-official invitational event featuring 20 of the LET’s best players in Spain just a month ago.

“I was just enjoying it. I wanted to finish well. My goal for today was to shoot in the 60s so I had to make a birdie on the last but I didn’t. That was my only goal. ”

Top Ten Results

1 285 -7 Lotta Wahlin

2= 297 +5 Johanna Westerberg

Stacy Lee Bregman

Paula Marti

5= 298 +6 Amy Yang

Marianne Skarpnord

7= 299 +7 Trish Johnson

Lisa Hall (ENG)

9 300 +8 Stephanie Arricau

10 301 +9 Iben Tinning

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