STOKE by Nayland Golf Club's Lily May Humphreys will represent England in the European Young Masters today in confident mood, after becoming one of the youngest winners of the English Women’s Amateur Championship.

The 15-year-old secured a one-shot win after a gutsy fightback over the closing holes at the event, held at Lindrick Golf Club, in Yorkshire.

Humphreys led throughout the championship until midway through the final round.

She had set out on the last 18 with a two-shot lead but after dropping four shots on the way to the turn, she found herself a stroke behind Hampshire’s Emma Allen (Meon Valley).

However, she played the back nine in two-under par to Allen’s one-over to score her narrow victory over Allen and Lincolnshire’s India Clyburn (Woodhall Spa).

It was the latest and biggest in a long string of titles amassed by the teenager – and a very special one.

Humphreys said: “It’s a different feeling to all my other wins and it definitely feels better because I knew I had fallen behind and I had to make myself get ahead again.

"I had to fight for it at the end and it really encouraged me to think I could get back."

Humphreys, who begins competing for England in Oslo today, had special thanks for her caddy, Yorkshire’s Charlie Daughtrey, having suffered early problems in her round from missed putts.

They played together in the Sunningdale Foursomes and often caddy for each other, so his knowledge of Humphreys’ game was invaluable, particularly on the greens.

She said: “Charlie helped me read the putts and encouraged me when I hit a good shot and I just got it back together.

"I started hitting good shots and if I missed a putt it was for a birdie, which felt better.”

Humphreys played the back nine in bogey-free two-under, her best performance of the week and it proved the title clincher.

She birdied the par five 14th, hitting the green with a four-iron and then taking a steady two putts.

Humphreys followed up immediately with another birdie on the 15th, where a long drive left her just over 60 yards to the hole.

Her pitch finished 12ft away and she rolled in the putt.

Ahead of her, Allen bogeyed the 18th and when Humphreys finished with three straight pars, the title was hers.