{"id":7295,"date":"2012-09-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.golfinspain.es.local\/b\/2012\/09\/24\/island-paradise-for-aussies\/"},"modified":"2019-11-07T11:01:46","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T10:01:46","slug":"island-paradise-for-aussies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.golfinspain.com\/b\/2012\/09\/island-paradise-for-aussies\/","title":{"rendered":"Island Paradise for Aussies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Stacey Keating celebrates with caddie\/boyfriend Darren Peters<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Australian Nikki Garrett made a scorching start to the 2012 Tenerife Open de Espa\u00f1a Femenino but it was compatriot Stacey Keating who eventually left Golf Las Am\u00e9ricas with the main silverware.<\/span><\/p>\n

Garrett, the Ladies European Tour\u2019s 2006 rookie of the year, opened with a bogey-free career-best eight-under 64 to take a three-shot lead. It came as no surprise that 28-year-old from Gosford (New South Wales) was quick out of the blocks in the premier event on the Spanish women\u2019s golf calendar. She won the 2007 Tenerife Ladies Open at Golf Del Sur and the Open de Espa\u00f1a Femenino at Country Club Mediterr\u00e1neo in Castell\u00f3n the following week. She also tied for second behind Becky Brewerton in a non-official Ladies European Tour matchplay event at Golf Las Am\u00e9ricas last June.<\/p>\n

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Halfway leader Nikki Garrett<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cI love Tenerife; I love Spain. \u00a0I had both my wins in Tenerife, Spain, so it feels a lot like home. I\u2019m always very relaxed when I play in this part of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

The next day she scrambled to a 73 but still retained a one-stroke lead for the weekend. On the Saturday she slipped with a 74 and relinquished the lead to German Caroline Masson, as Keating \u2013 the number one ranked female Australian amateur in 2010 (Garrett achieved the same honour in 2005) \u2013 moved into second place one stroke back.<\/p>\n

On the final day, Masson and Keating finished level on nine-under 279 before the Australian birdied the first extra hole for her first LET victory in just her second season on the tour.<\/p>\n

Later, the 26-year-old from Ballarat (Victoria) said victory would make amends for the huge disappointment of the previous week when she was disqualified from the Ricoh Women\u2019s British Open for signing for an incorrect score when lying in a tie for 32nd place.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u201cI\u2019ve probably had the worst week of my life and the best week of my life in two weeks. It was very disappointing last week but this makes up for it, I can tell you. It will be all forgotten, last week.\u201d She paid tribute to her caddie, Darren Peters (who is also her boyfriend), and the support of mentor Karrie Webb.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter the disappointment of last week she\u2019s been great. Her and Karen Lunn, I have to mention her as well. They\u2019ve been unbelievable. I don\u2019t like to say, the veterans out here, but they\u2019ve been great and they really have helped me, and Kaz has been great out here this week.\u201d<\/p>\n

Veteran Trish Johnson finished third, one stroke out of the play-off, and Garrett closed with a 70 to end up fourth; while Carlota Ciganda and Tania Elosegui were the leading Spanish players, in a four-way share of fifth place with Esther Choe and Lee-Anne Pace.<\/p>\n


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Stacey Keating celebrates with caddie\/boyfriend Darren Peters Australian Nikki Garrett made a scorching start to the 2012 Tenerife Open de Espa\u00f1a Femenino but it was compatriot Stacey Keating who eventually left Golf Las Am\u00e9ricas with the main silverware. Garrett, the Ladies European Tour\u2019s 2006 rookie of the year, opened with a bogey-free career-best eight-under 64 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mbp_gutenberg_autopost":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[585,586],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-int","category-facebook"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golfinspain.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golfinspain.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golfinspain.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golfinspain.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golfinspain.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.golfinspain.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golfinspain.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golfinspain.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golfinspain.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}