after winning the Irish Challenge at Malahide last week<\/a> \u2013 her first event as a professional \u2013 and a final-round 75 saw her enter a sudden death play-off with Sweden\u2019s Moa Svedenskiold and German amateur Lena Geier.<\/p>\nA bogey eliminated Geier at the first play-off hole, and it was at the next hole where the drama unfolded.<\/p>\n
The Swede thought she had claimed the title after getting up and down from thick rough beside a greenside bunker, with Coulter unable to make par.<\/p>\n
As Svedenskiold was mobbed in celebration, Coulter picked up her ball \u2013 however, Svedenskiold was informed minutes later by a rules official that she had been assessed a two-stroke penalty for unlawfully building a stance in the bunker.<\/p>\n
That meant that she carded a double bogey, but Coulter was also assessed a one-stroke penalty for not finishing out. The Irish golfer was made to replace her ball on the green before tapping in for double bogey.<\/p>\n
Two more play-off holes followed before Svedenskiold finally came out on top.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"County Down golfer Beth Coulter missed out on a second LET Access Tour victory in as many weeks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-807082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}