Luna eclipses rivals in Ireland

Italy’s Diana Luna was a comfortable winner of the AIB Irish Open in Portmarnock on Sunday.
Diana Luna was a comfortable winner of the AIB Irish Open in Portmarnock on Sunday.
The Italian, who took a one-shot lead into the final round, won with an 11-under-par score of 205, putting her four strokes clear of a trio of players.
The 26-year-old from Rome had a bogey-free final round of four-under-par 68, enabling her to finish clear of France’s Gwladys Nocera (69), England’s Florentyna Parker and Sweden’s Sophie Gustafson (71).
Parker finished with a round of 70, a double bogey on the 15th denying the 20-year-old, Germany-born Briton a chance to put pressure on Luna in the closing holes.
Gustafson, a three-time winner of this event, slipped out of contention after double bogeys on the fourth and sixth.
Scotland’s Krystle Caithness finished fifth, a further shot back on six under par, with England’s Melissa Reid one behind her.
The event finished late because of two delays for fog. The final round was suspended for 30 minutes from 9.50am due to a dense sea fog which rolled in from across the Irish Sea – and there was a second suspension of more than three hours at 1pm.
All the final round scores & totals in the Ladies European Tour AIB Ladies Irish Open, Portmarnock Hotel & Golf Links, Portmarnock, Dublin, Ireland
(Gbr & Irl unless stated, par 72)
205 Diana Luna (Ita) 68 69 68
209 Florentyna Parker 70 69 70, Sophie Gustafson (Swe) 71 67 71, Gwladys Nocera (Fra) 68 72 69
210 Krystle Caithness 71 69 70
211 Melissa Reid 68 70 73
212 Sophie Giquel (Fra) 70 74 68
213 Marianne Skarpnord (Nor) 71 70 72, Lee-Anne Pace (USA) 71 71 71
214 Frances Bondad (Aus) 74 70 70, Sophie Walker 74 72 68, Julie Greciet (Fra) 67 72 75, Becky Brewerton 68 72 74, Jodi Ewart 74 69 71
215 Lydia Hall 69 74 72, Tania Elosegui (Spa) 75 70 70, Emma Zackrisson (Swe) 70 72 73
216 Jade Schaeffer (Fra) 74 70 72, Beatriz Recari (Spa) 72 71 73, Johanna Westerberg (Swe) 72 73 71
217 Christel Boeljon (Ned) 71 72 74, Carmen Alonso (Spa) 72 71 74, Laura Cabanillas (Spa) 71 75 71
218 Marta Prieto (Spa) 74 71 73, Ursula Wikstrom (Fin) 75 73 70
219 Vikki Laing (USA) 68 77 74, Martina Eberl (Ger) 68 75 76, Maria Hjorth (Swe) 67 78 74, Rebecca Hudson 73 74 72, Lisa Holm Sorensen (Den) 73 75 71, Martina Gillen 69 76 74, Lynnette Teresa Brooky (Nzl) 73 72 74, Anna Tybring (Swe) 72 72 75
220 Laura Terebey (USA) 76 74 70, Lynn Kenny 75 72 73
221 Lotta Maria Wahlin (Swe) 73 73 75, Riikka Hakkarainen (Fin) 75 74 72, Dana Lacey (Aus) 72 73 76, Rhian wyn Thomas 74 75 72, Nikki Garrett (Aus) 74 73 74, Paula Marti (Spa) 70 71 80, Tara Delaney 70 76 75, Caroline Afonso (Fra) 76 72 73, Joanne Mills (Aus) 74 70 77, Anna-Lise Caudal (Fra) 72 76 73, Samantha Head 70 78 73
222 Iben Tinning (Den) 73 76 73, Nina Reis (Swe) 70 76 76, Nicole Gergely (Aut) 71 76 75, Federica Piovano (Ita) 75 72 75, Margherita Rigon (Ita) 74 75 73
223 Kiran Matharu 70 76 77, Felicity Johnson 75 73 75, Linda Wessberg (Swe) 73 77 73, Rachel Jennings 70 79 74, Rebecca Coakley 75 74 74, Joanne Morley 75 75 73, Lisa Hall 73 72 78
224 Hazel Kavanagh 75 74 75, Stacy Lee Bregman (Rsa) 75 74 75
225 Breanne Alicia Loucks 74 75 76, Yuki Sakurai (Jpn) 76 72 77, Danielle Mcveigh 74 70 81
226 Morgana Robbertze (Rsa) 77 73 76
227 Lisa Jean (Aus) 70 77 80, Georgina Simpson 72 78 77, Henrietta Zuel 76 74 77, Veronica Zorzi (Ita) 74 76 77
228 Denise-charlotte Becker (Ger) 75 70 83, Camille Fallay (Fra) 73 77 78
229 Amanda Moltke-Leth (Den) 74 75 80
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