India’s teen star Avani reaches Round of 8 at R&A’s Girls Champs in Scotland

Avani at Carnoustie. Courtesy: MS Prashanth

Aug 11: Avani Prashanth’s progress at the Royal and Ancient’s Girls Amateur continued as she scored a biggest win in the Round of 16 at the tough Carnoustie Golf Club in Scotland.

Avani, 15, and still almost two months away from her 16th birthday has been making rapid strides. In the Round of 16, she beat the Dutch girl Fleur Van Bleek  5&4 biggest and moved ahead. Earlier in the Round of 32 she beat Italian Rebecca Galasso 3&2.

She will now meet England’s Rachel Gourley, who beat Spain’s Martina Lopez-Lanchares 2-Up.

Avani, playing on a Links Golf Course for only the third time, came through to the Matchplay segment after finishing in Top 64 from a field of 144 players. With just the topper, Paula Martin Sampedro scoring 2-under for the two rounds, all other scores were over par at the notoriously tough Par-71 Carnoustie, which is also an Open venue. Avani shot 74-76 as she finished 14th and made the matchplay stage at the Carnoustie Golf club, considered as the fourth toughest Golf course in the world.

The R&A Junior Girls Tournament started with 144 players, including Avani and another Indian, Zara Anand (82-82) with the latter getting eliminated. The  top 64 made the Matchplay stage, which is a knock out format.

Avani had been playing in a series of events outside India as she seeks to gain more experience. She did that in India by playing on the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour and did very well.

Since May, she has played in the Queen Sirikit Cup in Singapore, the Women’s Amateur in Scotland, the Amundi German Masters in Germany on the Ladies European Tour, which is a professional Tour.

More recently she played the R&A Junior and was T-21 and also played the European Ladies Amateurs.

 

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