Big victory at last for Ang

IN her 18th year on tour, after a wild and tearful final few holes, American Angela Stanford became a women’s major champion yesterday.

It was a long journey to an unlikely one-shot victory at the Evian Championship in France for a player who believed as a rookie in 2001 that major titles would come sooner than her 40th birthday

“I’d have laughed, ‘No way, it’s going to happen before’,” said Stanford, whose 12-under was enough to hold off Amy Olson (US) by a shot.