{"id":74158,"date":"2025-08-17T22:29:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T22:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/74158\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T22:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T22:29:09","slug":"lily-reitter-conquers-at-conwy-to-win-girls-amateur-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/74158\/","title":{"rendered":"Lily Reitter conquers at Conwy to win Girls\u2019 Amateur Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lily Reitter savoured the biggest win of her young career after a hard-earned victory in the Final of The R&A Girls\u2019 Amateur Championship at sun-drenched Conwy.
\nThe 16-year-old from France had forged a commanding lead over England\u2019s Charlotte Naughton during the morning\u2019s opening 18 holes and eventually staved off the challenge of her rival to win by a 4&2 margin in the 96th staging of the Championship.
\nNaughton, the winner of the German Girls\u2019 International Amateur Championship earlier this season, deserved great credit for a spirited effort as the 17-year-old tried her best to claw back a five-hole deficit in Wales.
\nA burst of terrific scoring between the 9th and 14th during the afternoon\u2019s second round underlined the quality of the contest. Both players were five-under for those six holes as they exchanged blow and counter blow.
\nValiant effort
\nAmid that blizzard of birdies, Reitter still managed to hold onto a three-hole lead and Naughton\u2019s admirable assault came to grief on the 34th when her drive disappeared in the bushes and she eventually conceded on the green.
\nThe trophy, and the spin-offs that come with victory, belonged to Reitter. As well as etching her name on to a roll of honour of considerable distinction, Reitter also earned invitations to next year\u2019s Augusta National Women\u2019s Amateur, The Women\u2019s Amateur Championship and the US Girls\u2019 Junior Championship. She also gets an exemption into Final Qualifying for the AIG Women\u2019s Open.
\n\u201cI\u2019m so proud of myself,\u201d said Reitter after becoming he first French champion since Alexandra Bonetti in 2010. \u201cI did have a big lead through 18 but it\u2019s always tough to maintain that kind of advantage. I always prefer to be in a spot where I\u2019m chasing.
\n\u201cCharlotte really is impressive and it was a pleasure to battle it out against her. During that stretch of holes when we were throwing birdies at each other, I was thinking, \u2018oh my goodness, can you stop making as many putts as me.\u2019 She put up a great fight.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lily Reitter savoured the biggest win of her young career after a hard-earned victory in the Final of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-74158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}