Leona Maguire, Holly

Clyburn win French

junior finals

Leona Maguire, one of the Irish talented twins, won the French lady junior championship at St Cloud Golf Club, Paris today.
The 14-year-old member of the Slieve Russell club near the town of Cavan in Co Cavan, Northern Ireland won a cut-and-thrust 36-hole final against Karla Spilkova (Czech Republic) that went all the way, by one hole.
Leona, pictured by Cal Carson Golf Agency, who was the sixth qualifier for the match-play stages, thus won the Esmond Trophy. Spilkova was the No 9 qualifier.
Last year Leona won the Cartier Trophy for girls Under-18 who fail to qualify for the main championship.
Today that was won by 18-year-old Holly Clyburn from Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire. Holly beat Spain's Noemi Jimenez Martin by 4 and 3 in the final.
Leona Maguire is the reigning Irish women's amateur champion. She beat sister Lisa in the final last year.