England’s Mimi Rhodes, Charlotte Heath and Annabell Fuller noticed their hopes fade on the final day of the Aramco China Championship as Spain’s Ana Pelaez stormed to her second Women European Tour title with a nine-under spherical that included a hole-in-one.
Heath shared the lead with Pelaez’s compatriot Luna Sobron on 16 below after spherical three in Shenzhen, with Rhodes one shot again and Fuller three strokes adrift.
Fuller stared fantastically on Sunday with 4 birdies in her first six holes lifting her to 16 below however she then registered three bogeys on her again 9 forward of a closing birdie to finish up on 14 below and in ninth spot after a one-under day, six pictures behind Pelaez.
England’s Mimi Rhodes completed three strokes behind Aramco China Championship winner Pelaez
With Heath solely capable of card an even-par 73, mixing two birdies with as many bogeys, Rhodes, a three-time winner on the Women European Tour in 2025, was the highest-placed of the English contingent, ending in outright second on 17 below.
The 24-year-old, who made her Solheim Cup debut in September as Group Europe defeated Group USA within the Netherlands, registered birdies at 4 and 17 as she signed for a blemish-free, two-under 71.
Pelaez was irresistible on the day, along with her round-of-the-week 64 at Mission Hills that includes seven birdies, together with three in a row to complete, and an ace on the par-three thirteenth as claimed her first victory on the tour because the 2022 Madrid Women Open.
Pelaez’s fellow Spaniard Sobron completed in a share of third place on 16 below after an even-par 73, alongside Heath and China’s Shiyuan Zhou, Ruixin Liu and Liqi Zeng.
One other Englishwoman, Alice Hewson, got here twentieth on 11 below.
Charlotte Heath shared the lead after three rounds in Shenzhen
Sakuma claims first LPGA Tour title
On the LPGA Tour, Shuri Sakuma gained her first title on the circuit with a four-shot victory on the Toto Japan Traditional in her homeland.
Sakuma, who had gained eight occasions beforehand on the LPGA of Japan Tour, carded an eight-under closing spherical of 64 to achieve 20 below for the event, with 54-hole chief Akie Iwai ending second on 16 below after a one-under 71 at Taihelyo Membership Minori Course.
The Toto Japan Traditional was the ultimate a part of the LPGA Tour’s late-season ‘Asian Swing’, after the Buick LPGA Shanghai in China, BMW Women Championship in South Korea and Maybank Championship in Malaysia.
The tour returns to the USA subsequent week for The Annika in Florida, reside on Sky Sports activities Golf and Sky Sports activities Important Occasion from 4pm on Thursday.
Sweden’s Linn Grant gained the occasion in 2025 after Nelly Korda had accomplished so in three of the earlier 4 seasons.
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