Baker wins Women's Amateur Championship, earns ticket to majors

Jess Baker claimed the biggest title of her career and with it a ticket to major championships as she won the 119th Women's Amateur Championship at Hunstanton.

The 19-year-old defeated Sweden's Louise Rydqvist 4&3 in the 36-hole Final and will now be able to play in fields she could have only dreamed of going into this week, with appearances in major championships and at Augusta National now on the horizon.

Baker, whose dad was her caddy during her successful sojourn on the Norfolk links, joins an impressive list of past winners including LPGA victor Leona Maguire and major winners Georgia Hall, Catriona Matthew and Anna Nordqvist - last year's AIG Women's Open Champion at Carnoustie.

She will compete in this year's Open at Muirfield as well as the US Women's Open, The Amundi Evian Championship and receives, by tradition, an invitation to the Augusta National Women's Amateur Championship.

"It's an amazing feeling, just incredible. I can't believe it," Baker said. "I'm absolutely stunned but I'm just so happy. I worked really, really hard to get here and it's just such a satisfying feeling.

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