Australian Kelsey Bennett put the exclamation point on an outstanding rookie season with her best finish of the year at the LET Access Series season finale.

Bennett, Minjee Lee and Jason Scrivener all logged top-10 finishes in a quiet week for golf globally, Bennett’s tie for fourth at the Santander Golf Tour-Zaragoza the pick of them.

It was Bennett’s fourth consecutive top-10 finish and sixth of the season, the 23-year-old from Mollymook on the New South Wales South Coast ending the year sixth in the LET Access Series Rookie of the Year standings.

A week after edging her in a playoff at the BMW Ladies Championship, there was little that Minjee Lee could do stop Alison Lee at the Ladies European Tour Aramco Team Series event at Riyadh Golf Club.

By starting the 54-hole tournament with consecutive rounds of 11-under par 61, Lee smashed the LET 36-hole scoring record on her way to an eight-stroke victory.

With two wins and a runner-up in her previous four starts, world No.4 Minjee Lee continued her phenomenal run of form with a tie for sixth.

It was a welcome return to form for Scrivener at the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters in Qatar.

Without a top-10 anywhere since the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship in January, Scrivener’s 5-under 67 in the final round was one of the best rounds of the day and saw him climb 12 spots into a tie for ninth.

Results
LPGA Tour
Maybank Championship
Kuala Lumpur Golf and Country Club, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
1          Celine Boutier              70-64-69-64—267       $US450,000
Won in sudden-death playoff
T11      Lydia Ko (NZ)                68-71-65-70—274       $54,591
T17      Hannah Green              64-70-72-71—277       $37,450
T34      Sarah Kemp                 69-74-67-70—280       $18,900
T34      Grace Kim                    65-72-73-70—280       $18,900
59        Stephanie Kyriacou      70-71-74-73—288       $8,132

DP World Tour
Commercial Bank Qatar Masters
Doha GC, Doha, Qatar
1          Sami Valimaki               67-67-67-69—270       €603,208.88
Won in sudden-death playoff
T9        Jason Scrivener            70-69-69-67—275       €64,697.11
T16      Daniel Hillier (NZ)         65-65-74-73—277       €46,056.77

Ladies European Tour
Aramco Team Series Presented by PIF - Riyadh
Riyadh Golf Club, Saudi Arabia
1          Alison Lee        61-61-65—187 $US71,094
T6        Minjee Lee       63-70-67—200 $13,981.82
T35      Kirsten Rudgeley          69-72-67—208 $3,720.59

Legends Tour
Sergio Melpignano Senior Italian Open
San Domenico Golf, Italy
1          James Kingston            69-70-61—200
T23      Michael Long (NZ)        73-66-70—209
T31      Michael Campbell (NZ) 67-71-73—211
T37      Peter Fowler                 71-70-71—212

LET Access Series
Santander Golf Tour - ZARAGOZA
Real Club de Golf La Penaza, Spain
1          Elena Moosmann         67-70-70—207 €6,400
T4        Kelsey Bennett             69-73-70—212 €1,252
T37      Amy Walsh                   71-75-73—219 €344
MC       Kristalle Blum               75-78—153
MC       Victoria Fricot               80-75—155

Photo: Gambito Golf/LETAS