Paula Reto romps to runaway victory at Sun City

Paula Reto romped home by 10 strokes after a closing one-under-par 71 in the Sunshine Ladies Tour's SuperSport Ladies Challenge at Sun City on Friday.

Her five birdies and four bogeys in the closing round at the Gary Player Country Club took her to 13-under-par for the tournament, with Casandra Alexander in a distant second on three-under-par after a closing round of two-over-par 74.

Sweden's Linn Grant, last week's winner of the Dimension Data Ladies Challenge, and reigning South African Women's Open champion Lee-Anne Pace shared third on two-under-par and Stacy Bregman and Romy Meekers from the Netherlands rounded out the top five on one-under.

"It means a lot," said Reto of her first professional title in her home country.

"I've been getting lots of messages, especially from my family. It shows I can do it, and to do it here in my home country makes it that much bigger - one of my bigger wins, for sure."

Reto battled her way through the front nine, finding things more difficult than they had been all week for her. She bogeyed the par-five fifth but regained that lost shot with a birdie on the very next hole. Bogeys on eight and nine meant she turned in two-over 38.

"There were lots of thoughts bouncing around in my head, and I was just trying to stay calm," she said.

"My breathing was a little off in the first couple of holes, and Casandra played so well. I needed to think whether I was supposed to press then. In the end, I decided to just keep doing what I was doing. After those bogeys on eight and nine, I turned and told myself that it was okay. I focused on the back nine and tried to see how many birdies I could get together."

She regained some of her swagger with consecutive birdies on 10, 11 and 12. She picked up another