SPANISH UNDER 18 WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP 2025

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Lucía Iraola, a Basque golfer from the Blume National School in León, is the new Spanish Under 18 champion, a title she won after winning a thrilling playoff at the Norba Golf Club in Cáceres, in which Nagore Martínez and Liz Hao also participated.

These three players are tied for the lead with 292 strokes, a total of +4. Iraola started the day in the lead with a comfortable advantage, but couldn't maintain it, partly due to a double bogey on the 17th hole that dropped her to +4 for the day. Liz Hao (73 strokes on Sunday) and Nagore Martínez, who carded the best round of the day with a 70, took advantage of this situation.

In the playoff, Lucía Iraola once again displayed her best golf, sinking a birdie with a great downhill putt of about seven meters, which put pressure on her rivals. Neither Nagore nor Liz, both brilliant protagonists of the previous Copa de SM La Reina, could match this result, which saw the San Sebastián golfer of Extremaduran descent succeed Cloe Amión in the record books.

Tiphani Knight from Andalusia (+7), Adriana García Terol from Barcelona (+8) and Lucía Valderrama from Valencia (+8) have completed the Top 5 of the week.

Lucía Iraola, the undisputed leader after the first three days

At the end of the third round, Lucía Iraola was emerging as the clear favorite for the title. The Basque player wasn't as sharp on Saturday as she had been on the second round, but a round like her first-day score of 73 (+1) was more than enough to put her at the top of the leaderboard with a three-stroke advantage over Liz Hao and four over Tiphani Knight.

This third round also served to establish the required cut-off in the classification, which was saved by a total of 62 players.

Lucía Iraola took the lead in the tournament at the end of the second round, although in this case she shared first place with Tiphani Knight. Both the Basque and the Andalusian players carded rounds of 70 (-2) on Friday, and with a total of 143 (-1), they were just one stroke ahead of Lucía Valderrama.

These three golfers took advantage of the lackluster second round (79) of Ana Malcolm, a golfer from the Canary Islands representing the Blume National School in León, who had carded a splendid 68 (-4) in her opening round. Malcolm was the tournament's first leader thanks to an impeccable round that included six birdies.

FINAL RESULTS

1.- Lucía Iraola 292 (73+70+73+76)

2.- Liz Hao 292 (76+72+71+73)

+.- Nagore Martínez 292 (76+70+76+70)