{"id":431395,"date":"2026-05-04T07:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T07:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/431395\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T07:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T07:30:10","slug":"roscommon-golfer-secures-stunning-victory-and-writes-herself-into-the-history-books-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/431395\/","title":{"rendered":"Roscommon golfer secures stunning victory and writes herself into the history books – News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roscommon golfer Olivia Costello said the hard work is beginning to pay off as she emphatically reclaimed the Flogas Irish Girls\u2019 Amateur Open Championship this afternoon<\/p>\n

The 2023 champion joins Olivia Mehaffey (three) in the history books, as the only players to have won this title on multiple occasions.<\/p>\n

It was another stellar performance from the 18-year-old, where she backed up her solid rounds of 70 and 67 with another 67 on Sunday in Corrstown.<\/p>\n

\"ElsaElsa Chen, Selina Bartarya, Oliva Costello and Hannah Lee McNamara at Corrstown. Pic: Bryan Keane \/ Inpho.<\/p>\n

Costello finished on 12-under-par, seven-shots clear of Hannah Lee-McNamara (Royal Portrush), who was unable to close the margin having begun the day three adrift.<\/p>\n

\u201cI struggled a bit the last couple of months. I had a lesson with my coach Shane there last week,\u201d said Costello.<\/p>\n

“I spent a couple of hours with him. It was a small bit of everything, but mostly to do with my ball striking, my long game, my irons. I felt after that I was coming in in a good place.<\/p>\n

\u201cI put in a good lot of work so it\u2019s nice to see that has paid off. My irons again on the back nine were really good, I put myself into good positions and I had a few nice putts.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Costello had a solid front nine and birdies on five and seven paved the way for a six-shot lead at the turn. Lee-McNamara\u2019s chances looked to have faded at that point, she bogeyed the first and followed up with another bogey on the seventh.<\/p>\n

And there was no run coming from further down the field, Emma Ear (Golf de Fontainebleau), Selina Bartarya (Royal Blackheath) and Ella-Louise McCorry (Lurgan) were the only other players under-par for their front nine.<\/p>\n

But Costello surged clear and five birdies followed, including three in a row between 11 and 13, while she finished with a flourish with putts dropping on 16 and 17 as she claimed another girls\u2019 title.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019ll bring good confidence in my game. See what I\u2019ve done in the last couple of days and weeks and months, they\u2019re starting to pay off,\u201d said Costello.<\/p>\n

\u201cEspecially with it being my last year U-18, it was a nice way to finish. The Junior Solheim Cup is a goal.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll play in a few events and just see how it goes and if I give myself the opportunity to make it then that\u2019ll be great.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roscommon golfer Olivia Costello said the hard work is beginning to pay off as she emphatically reclaimed the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-431395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}