Scotland's Carly Booth claimed her maiden Ladies European Tour title with victory at the Scottish Open by one shot from Florentyna Parker and Frances Bondad in East Lothian.
The 19-year-old Booth wrapped up the weekend with a round of 71 to finish four under par in difficult conditions, and that proved to be enough when Parker missed a 40-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole to miss out on a play-off.
"I'm still 19 and I've just won my first Ladies European Tour event so I'm just happy," said Booth, who was swiftly off to find updates on the FA Cup Final in the clubhouse. "It would especially make my day if Liverpool win."
Booth began the day in a three-way tie with Parker and Stacy Lee Bregman and with the near-freezing conditions continuing to make things tough on the course, none of them could make a decisive break in the early going.
Booth nosed in front with a birdie on the 11th, but Parker replied with a birdie one hole later.
Things turned in Booth's favour on the 16th where she recovered from a tough tee shot into the rough to record a par, while Parker - who looked to have an easier run after reaching the green in two - missed a putt and dropped a shot.
Booth found a bunker on the 18th but rescued another par to sneak the win.
"It was only about two feet and I only just got it in the hole. I must have just felt the nerves there," she told ladieseuropeantour.com of the final putt. "I was fine all the way up until that putt, put it that way. I just didn't feel anything until I holed that putt because I realised, 'This is it!'
"It stopped at least for a second and I thought it was going to come up short. It was like the longest two foot putt I've ever had to hole," Booth said.
The win secures Booth an exemption to play on the Ladies European Tour until 2014.
Parker dropped back into a share of second place with Frances Bondad, who made up for a poor day yesterday with an impressive closing round of 67 powering her up the leaderboard.
Bregman fell completely out of contention as she fell apart with a round of 78, allowing England's Trish Johnson and Melissa Reid to claim a share of third alongside Stacey Keating.
Johnson began on fire, and was in contention for the win after completing the first 11 holes seven under par.
But a penalty on the 14th before dropped shots on the 16th and 18th undid that hard work.
Collated final-round scores and totals, Archerfield Links, East Lothian, Scotland
(Par: 72)
212 Carly Booth (Sco) 70 71 71
213 Florentyna Parker (Eng) 72 69 72, Frances Bondad (Aus) 71 75 67
214 Trish Johnson (Eng) 71 75 68, Stacey Keating (Aus) 73 72 69, Melissa Reid (Eng) 70 74 70
215 Sophie Giquel-Bettan (Fra) 73 72 70
216 Becky Morgan (Wal) 74 70 72, Gwladys Nocera (Fra) 72 75 69
217 Diana Luna (Ita) 70 73 74, Kylie Walker (Sco) 74 74 69, Cassandra Kirkland (Fra) 71 76 70, Virginie Lagoutte-Clement (Fra) 74 74 69, Lee-Anne Pace (Rsa) 70 74 73
218 Caroline Masson (Ger) 74 73 71, Kiran Matharu (Eng) 73 75 70, Sarah Kemp (Aus) 69 76 73, Karen Lunn (Aus) 74 71 73, Anne-Lise Caudal (Fra) 67 76 75
219 Margherita Rigon (Ita) 75 71 73, Pernilla Lindberg (Swe) 74 74 71, Catriona Matthew (Sco) 74 72 73, Stacy Lee Bregman (Rsa) 71 70 78
220 Carin Koch (Swe) 77 72 71, Tania Elosegui (Spa) 76 72 72, Georgina Simpson (Eng) 73 76 71, Giulia Sergas (Ita) 75 73 72, Felicity Johnson (Eng) 74 71 75, Tara Davies (Wal) 70 72 78, Vikki Laing (Sco) 76 72 72, Elizabeth Bennett (Eng) 73 71 76
221 Louise Larsson (Swe) 76 72 73, Veronica Zorzi (Ita) 71 75 75, Bree Arthur (Aus) 73 75 73, Sophie Walker (Eng) 76 72 73, Louise Stahle (Swe) 76 73 72, Nikki Garrett (Aus) 74 73 74
222 Hannah Jun (USA) 69 79 74
223 Lynn Kenny (Sco) 70 77 76, Lucie Andre (Fra) 75 75 73, Caroline Afonso (Fra) 72 76 75, Danielle Montgomery (Eng) 74 74 75, Helen Alfredsson (Swe) 70 75 78
224 Laura Davies (Eng) 74 70 80, Rebecca Codd (Irl) 70 75 79, Rebecca Hudson (Eng) 73 72 79, Linda Wessberg (Swe) 72 76 76, Becky Brewerton (Wal) 74 74 76
225 Rachel Jennings (Eng) 73 75 77
226 Heather Macrae (Sco) 72 75 79
228 Lindsey Wright (Aus) 75 75 78
