Beth Coulter has won on her professional debut, taking victory in the Women’s Irish Challenge Ladies European Tour Challenge Tour event at Malahide Golf Club on Friday.<\/p>\n
The 22-year-old only joined the pro ranks four days ago and becomes the first Irish female professional golfer to win a professional tournament on home soil.<\/p>\n
Coulter, Ireland’s leading amateur over the past couple of years, got the better of South Korea’s in a sudden death play-off at the north Dublin venue.<\/p>\n
The two players finished tied on five under par at the top of the leaderboard, with the former Curtis Cup player ultimately prevailing at the first play-off hole thanks to a birdie four at the 18th, compared to a bogey six recorded by her rival. <\/p>\n
The Kirkistown Castle player began the final round in sole second spot after posting opening rounds of 73 and 67 to sit one behind overnight leader, Slovakia’s Michaela Vavrova.<\/p>\n
The leader’s challenge faded, with Coulter carding a two-under-par 70 to force a play-off.<\/p>\n
An eagle at the par-five sixth was sandwiched between dropped shots at the fourth and seventh holes but birdies at the 1th and 17th saw her clinch a place in the play-off.<\/p>\n
“To win on home soil, in front of so many family, friends and Irish supporters, is incredibly special and something I’ll remember forever,” said Coulter.<\/p>\n
“The atmosphere all week was amazing and the support I received has been incredible.”<\/p>\n
The course was in fantastic condition and the greens at Malahide were probably the best I’ve played on since coming back to Europe.”<\/p>\n
Coulter was part of the Great Britain and Ireland Curtis Cup team which lost to the USA in Los Angeles last month. <\/p>\n
She was also a member of the Great Britain and Ireland team which won the Curtis Cup at Sunningdale in 2024.<\/p>\n
After narrowly failing to qualify for the Women’s Open last weekend, she accepted an invitation to participate in this week’s three-round LET Access Tour tournament at Malahide, part of the second tier of women’s professional golf in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beth Coulter has won on her professional debut, taking victory in the Women’s Irish Challenge Ladies European Tour…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":838018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-838017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/838018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}