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Van Rooyen carded a closing 64 at Hills Golf & Sports Club to finish 19 under par, a shot ahead of England's Matt Fitzpatrick, who had birdied the 17th and 18th to also post a 64.

The defending champion did hit a birdie on the 12th but then Ahmed birdied the 14th, 16th and 18th holes to round off a brilliant three-day performance.

Making the turn at even-par, she birdied the 10th, another par-5, but flubbed a couple of birdie putts to settle for that 71 in a tie with Annabell Fuller of England, Auston Kim, Kenzie Wright, Bethany Wu, Remington Isaac and Allisen Corpuz of the US, Chinese Sophie Guo, Japan's Rino Sasaki, Aussie Doey Choi and Cory Lopez of Mexico.

GOLF JAPAN'S Hinako Shibuno birdied the final hole to win the AIG Women's British Open in thrilling fashion on her major championship debut at Woburn.

But Chan birdied the par-5 fifth and pulled to within one as Zheng dropped a stroke on the sixth before the latter moved 2-up again with a birdie on No.

He dropped a shot at the 13th to catch up with Ferreira who had also birdied three successive birdies from the 10th to the 12th.

'I was nervous at the start but after I birdied No.

But I missed a number of greens and putts at resumption,' said Bayron, who birdied Nos.

McIlroy bogeyed the first after a wild drive into the trees which was almost identical to his opening tee shot in the final round 12 months ago, but birdied the third and recovered from another bogey on the sixth to birdie the eighth.

She pulled up even with Chun twice when she birdied the 7th and 11th holes but eventually settled for second place.

The 27-year-old also birdied the 11th, 12th and 15th to move ahead of clubhouse leader Smith, who had surged through the field with a superb 64, before a birdie on the 17th capped a nerveless display.

Pieters birdied the fourth and seventh with McIlroy doing similarly at the fifth and sixth.