Historic Day Ahead at Carnoustie Finals

Carnoustie, Scotland: History will be made on Sunday when the finals of the R&A Girls’ and Boys’ Amateur championships are played alongside each other for the first time at Carnoustie.

England's Lottie Woad and Spaniard Cayetana Fernandez Garcia-Poggio will meet in the final of the Girls’ Amateur and it will be an all-Sweden showdown between Albert Hansson and Didrik Ringvall Bengtsson in the Boys’ Amateur.

Today’s 36-hole finals of both championships will also be live streamed for the first time and can be watched on The R&A’s website at www.randa.org as well as on The R&A YouTube channel.

In glorious sunshine over the famous Angus links on Saturday, the four players came through quarter and semi-final ties to seal their place in their respective finals.

In the 93rd Girls’ Amateur Championship, Woad defeated fellow English player Rachel Gourley 5&4 in their semi-final while Fernandez Garcia-Poggio beat Nathalie Borg from Sweden 4&2 in their last-four meeting.

In the morning’s quarter-final ties, Woad proved too strong for Emily James from Wales to win 6&4. Fernandez Garcia-Poggio was made to battle by Eila Galitsky, the only Thai player in the field, before coming through 2&1.

The 95th staging of the Boys’ Amateur Championship saw Hansson come through at the 20th against Frenchman Louis Anceaux with countryman Ringvall Bengtsson beating England’s Morgan Blythe by one hole.

The Swedish pair attend the same school in Helsingborg and have played together for much of their junior days.