Leona Maguire has made history by becoming the first Irish player to win a Ladies European Tour event after a one-shot victory at the Aramco Team Series event in Hemel Hempstead.
The Cavan native had been the front-runner throughout the tournament, but endured a difficult final round before coming out on top thanks to a stunning second shot at the closing par-five 18th.
Having trailed clubhouse leader Maria Hernandez, who posted a seven-under par score, by a shot going down the last, the pressure was on - but Maguire produced one of the shots of her career having come out of light rough in the centre of the fairway before sinking her putt.
WHAT. A. SHOT.
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It was the second Irish eagle on 18 after Lauren Walsh had done likewise to round off a stunning round, her 65 seeing her finish just two shots off the lead.
"My trusty hybrids came in handy again," Maguire told Sky Sports afterwards.
It's Maguire's fifth win as a professional with two victories on the LPGA Tour and two on the Symetra Tour previously.
For so long it looked like American Alison Lee would be the one to take advantage of Maguire's poor final round, but she was undone by a bogey on the last.
Lee went into the heavy rough off the tee and hacked into more with her second. That meant she had to nudge the ball forward with her third and she was unable to get up and down leaving her in the clubhouse alongside Walsh on six-under par.
It was also a tough finish for Hernandez who surely would have felt that she had done enough for at least a play-off after playing some tremendous golf coming in, including two birdies in her final three holes.
In the end though, Maguire was able to put a bad 17 holes behind her with that memorable closing hole.
Starting the day on eight-under par, she said afterwards that 10-under was the score she had in her mind but having been out in 39 - dropping two shots after going out of bounds on the sixth - she looked in real trouble.
A birdie at 12 was cancelled by a bogey on 16, Maguire faltering off the tee by slicing right into the bunker, leaving her needing something on the last to at least force a play-off.
She did better than that though, walking off the final green with twin sister Lisa spraying her with champagne.
