Hockley's Chris Quinn completes championship double (From Hampshire Chronicle)

Hockley's Chris Quinn completes championship double

2:45pm Wednesday 24th June 2009 in

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Hockley’s Chris Quinn completed a title double when she won the English Senior Women’s Strokeplay Championship at Royal Ashdown Forest in Sussex by four shots last week.

She adds the crown to the English senior amateur championship which she won at Hunstanton in April. “I’m thrilled to bits, I just can’t express it. It’s the sort of thing you dream about – to win them both in one season is just fantastic, amazing,” she said.

Quinn sealed the title with the low score of the week, a one-over par 74, which she added to her earlier rounds of 80, 79.

At the start of the final round Quinn was one of six players within a shot of each other at the top of the leaderboard. The scratch golfer started with bogeys on the first two holes but she soon made up ground and passed her rivals with a string of steady pars, a birdie on the par-five eighth and a chip-in eagle on the long 10th.

“I got a little bit defensive on the way in, but I was steady and I just dropped shots on the two occasions when I left myself with fast putts from above the hole,” added Quinn, who bogeyed the 14th and 15th.

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