The Swedish golfer romped to an outstanding nine-shot victory on the Scandinavian Combined match after posting a final-round, eight-under 64 at Halmstad Golfing Membership.
Grant, who grew to become skilled final 12 months, completed on 24-under par, very easily transparent of compatriots Henrik Stenson and Scotland’s Marc Warren, and 14 photographs transparent of the following girl, Gabriella Cowley.
When requested if competing and succeeding towards her male opposite numbers was once a motivation for her, Grant stated: “Evidently, that was once an important factor!”
“It is a great feeling and all week I have simply felt it was once the ladies towards the blokes and whoever picked up the trophy was once representing that aspect of the sector,” she advised Sky Sports activities.
The Scandinavian Combined match is hosted through Swedish greats Stenson and Annika Sorenstam.
It’s been at the males’s Ecu Excursion, which has been rebranded to the DP Global Excursion, since 1991 however was once co-sanctioned with the Girls Ecu Excursion in 2020.
Now, each women and men function within the match. Even supposing they play off other tees, one winner is topped, with Jonathan Caldwell profitable the primary version final 12 months.
In 2022, 78 males and 78 girls featured, and it was once 22-year-old Grant who made historical past on the finish of a protracted 4 days of play.
Enjoying together with her boyfriend, Pontus, as her caddie, Grint — who got here in as the ladies’s global No. 156 — carded 26 birdies and an eagle to ease to an admirable victory.
“I simply hope that individuals acknowledge girls’s golfing extra, sponsors cross to the Girls Ecu Excursion and, confidently, this pumps up the ladies’s recreation a bit of bit extra,” Grant advised Sky Sports activities after.
“I did not see it (the lead) till the thirteenth inexperienced, the place the display screen was once, and it was once a bit of bit (of a surprise). I assumed perhaps 3 or 4 forward, however then once I noticed 8, I used to be like I will in truth breathe out a bit of bit and cross on and do my factor.”
