{"id":348990,"date":"2025-08-16T11:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T11:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/348990\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T11:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T11:12:09","slug":"naughton-and-reitter-tee-up-final-showdown-in-girls-amateur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/348990\/","title":{"rendered":"Naughton and Reitter tee up Final showdown in Girls\u2019 Amateur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reitter, aiming to become the first French player to win the Girls\u2019 Amateur Championship since Perrine Delacour in 2009, secured her place in the Final with a tense, one-hole win over Sabrina Wong.<br \/>\nTwo down through seven, Reitter reeled off three birdies around the turn to haul herself level. The 16-year-old fell behind again to a Wong birdie on the 14th before an absorbing duel unravelled on the home straight.<br \/>\nWong hopes dashed<br \/>\nWong, who was bidding to become the first 13-year-old to win the Girls\u2019 title since Nancy Jupp back in 1934, hadn\u2019t made a bogey all day but two would arrive at the worst possible time.<br \/>\nWong lost her lead when her par putt on the 16th lipped out. With nerves jangling, the Glasgow-based Hong Kong, China golfer then launched her drive on the 18th into a bush down the right of the fairway and had to take a drop. It was a cruel way for Wong\u2019s campaign to end as she stumbled to a closing bogey.<br \/>\nFor a jubilant Reitter, however, a trying season may yet have a silver lining. \u201cI haven\u2019t been playing great this season so this is a big confidence booster,\u201d said the Florida-based French girl.<br \/>\n\u201cI won the French International under-21s last year and since then I went into a dip. I even missed the cut defending that title this year so that was disappointing. To be back in contention for a big trophy again has energised me. Once you win something you want more.\u201d<br \/>\nFrench support<br \/>\nReitter\u2019s push for glory was urged on from the sidelines by the French national coach, Marine Monnet, who won the Girls\u2019 Amateur back in 1996.<br \/>\n\u201cIt gives me extra motivation to have her and the rest of the team here,\u201d she said of the support. \u201cThe locals have been great too. We\u2019ve been playing a lot of golf this week, so their clapping keeps us going.\u201d<br \/>\nEarlier in the day, Reitter was a 7&amp;5 winner over Olivia Holmberg of Sweden in the quarter-finals. Never behind, Reitter threw an eagle and three birdies into the mix as she cruised to victory.<br \/>\nNaughton, meanwhile, eased into the last-four with a 3&amp;2 win over Melliyal Schmitt of France.<br \/>\nSchmitt bogeyed the 1st hole to fall behind and Naughton birdied the 5th and seventh to move three ahead. A classy display was polished off with four birdies in a row from the 12th.<br \/>\nSaturday\u2019s showpiece will be the first France versus England final since the aforementioned Delacour beat Elizabeth Mallet at West Lancashire in 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reitter, aiming to become the first French player to win the Girls\u2019 Amateur Championship since Perrine Delacour in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4106],"tags":[2826,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-348990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115038148645185559","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}