Sweden's Anna Nordqvist won her third major title after a dramatic final round in the AIG Women's Open at Carnoustie as Leona Maguire's challenge faltered early on in her final round.
Kildare amateur Lauren Walsh was also in action but with Maguire heading into the final round just four shots off overnight leaders Nordqvist and Denmark's Nanna Koerstz Madsen, there were hopes that the Cavan native could claim her maiden major title.
However, she opened with back-to-back bogeys to fall to three-under, and another two bogeys would follow in the front nine although birdies did arrive at the fourth and sixth holes.
Maguire did manage three birdies between the 11th and 14th holes to move to six-under, and she parred out from there to finish in a tie for 13th.
Walsh also opened up with a bogey, and she closed with one too, but overall she had another good day as a three-under round secured her a tie for 42nd on a one-over total overall.
It was Nordqvist’s day as she carded a closing 69 to finish 12-under, a shot ahead of compatriot Madelene Sagstrom, 2018 champion Georgia Hall and American Lizette Salas.
Sagstrom bogeyed the 18th to miss out on a potential play-off but it was Denmark's Madsen who had the biggest tale of woe, the 26-year-old sharing the lead with playing partner Nordqvist until making a double-bogey six on the last.
Madsen pushed her approach into a greenside bunker and, from an awkward lie, shanked her next shot almost out of bounds through the back of the green.
The resulting double bogey dropped her into a tie for fifth alongside Evian Championship winner Minjee Lee, who had earlier set the clubhouse target on 10-under after a closing 66.
Hall's chances of a second title looked slim when she followed an eagle on the sixth and birdie on the seventh with consecutive bogeys, but she bounced back to birdie the 11th and chipped in for a second eagle of the day on the next.
A two-putt birdie on the par-five 14th took Hall to 11-under and four pars over the tough closing stretch saw her take over the clubhouse lead from Lee.
Scottish amateur Louise Duncan was within a shot of the lead after a birdie on the first, but the 21-year-old Stirling University student eventually had to settle for a tie for 10th following a 72.
