Teenager Olivia Mehaffey clinches Scottish title

Olivia Mehaffey
Olivia Mehaffey has won the Irish Junior title three years in a row

Banbridge teenager Olivia Mehaffey has won the Scottish Open Amateur strokeplay championship at Royal Troon.

Mahaffey, 17, who recently won the Irish Junior Open for a third year, had a 75 in the final round to win by one shot from Anais Meyssonnier of France.

It was the Royal County Down player's first senior international event.

Mehaffey will follow in the footsteps of Graeme McDowell and Stephanie Meadow by taking up a golf scholarship at Arizona State University.

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