Aditi Ashok rounded off a great year with a tied-5th finish at the Omega Dubai Ladies Classic in Dubai on Saturday. Aditi, who was five-under through 17 ended with a double bogey, which took her from 14-under to 12-under.

 

 

                                   Aditi finished seventh on the Order of Merit, which was won by Georgia Hall of England

 

Angel Yin, displaying her vast potential and power off the tee as well as a soft touch around the greens, won in a three-way playoff to capture the title in a riveting finish at Emirates Golf Club.

 

Aditi, who was tied-4th after the third day, had a slow start with two birdies on front nine, but she did make a charge adding two more on 12th and 13th.

 

A bogey on par-3 15th was a dampner but back-to-back birdies on 16th and 17th were good. The closing double left a bad taste but a T-5 was a solid finish to 2017. Aditi finished seventh on the Order of Merit, which was won by Georgia Hall of England.

 

The 19-year-old Los Angeles native Angel saved par after finding the water on the closing hole in a bogey-free final round of 67 to match the clubhouse target of a 15-under-par set by South Korea’s In-Kyung Kim and Celine Herbin of France.

 

Long-hitting Yin and Kim birdied the first extra hole (the 18th) to stay in the hunt, while Herbin was eliminated after finding the water with her third shot.

 

A tap-in birdie on the drivable second playoff hole (254-yard, 17th) saw Yin clinch the issue as the South Korean agonisingly missed her birdie effort in the first ever play-off since the tournament’s inception in 2006.

 

Herbin, who shot a final round of 64, wasn’t too disappointed at being eliminated with a double-bogey on the 18th hole after finding the water with her third shot.

 

Overnight leader Anne Van Dam fired a final round of 71 and ended two strokes back in fourth place, with Aditi, Charley Hull and Pernilla Lindberg tied for fifth.