First success for Englishwoman Cara Gainer who finished with 210 (71 70 69, -9) strokes in the Lalla Meriem Cup, the inaugural event of the Ladies European Tour 2025 that took place on the course of the Royal Golf Dar Es Salam (par 73), in Rabat, Morocco. The 29-year-old from Oxford finished the event on par with India's Diksha Dagar (210 - 70 73 67) and then overtook her with a birdie on the first play-off hole.
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She finished in 30th place with 218 (72 73 73, -1) Alessia Nobilio, who made her debut on the circuit after obtaining a full-time ‘card’ at the Qualifying School last December.
Singapore's Shannon Tan, leader after two rounds and third with 211(-8), finished in third place. In fourth position with 212(-7) were Ireland's Lauren Walsh and Spain's Nuria Iturrioz, who has won the tournament twice (2016, 2019), and in sixth with 213(-6) were France's Nastasia Nadaud and England's Annabell Fuller. Among the eight competitors in eighth with 214 (-5) was the other Englishwoman Bronte Law, who was defending her title.
Cara Gainer climbed up from fifth place with a score of 69 (-4) with six birdies (against two bogeys), three of which between the 15th and 17th holes, enabling her to catch up with the Indian who climbed up from 14th place with a 67 (-6, seven birdies, one bogey). Then the latter scored a bogey on the additional hole. Gainer was rewarded with a cheque for €67,500 out of a prize pool of €450,000.
Alessia Nobilio shot a 73 (par), the result of three birdies and as many bogeys. The other two Italians in the field, Alessandra Fanali, 73rd with 151 (73 77, +5), and Anna Zanusso, 81st with 153 (81 72, +7), both made the cut.
