Rochelle Morris is celebrating winning the runner-up trophy in the English Women’s Amateur Championship.

The 20-year-old Woodsome Hall player triumphed following a tense battle for second spot at Hunstanton after world number three Bramhall’s Bronte Law blew the rest of the field away with a 16-shot winning margin.

Morris’s battle for runner-up with Lizzie Prior went down to the wire on the final day, when high winds provided challenging conditions.

Morris learned the game as a youngster with her father, Roger, at Crosland Heath. And it was those years battling the Yorkshire moorland winds which helped her to cope with the gusty conditions as Prior and as many of the other competitors dropped shots.

Even at the end of the four rounds, the women still had no idea what the placings were, due to poor reception and England Golf officials being unable to relay live messages to the scoreboards.

It was a nail-biting 30 minutes after they had finished that Morris learned she was second on a countback and her name would be etched on to the runners-up trophy alongside illustrious players like Charley Hull.

She scored 71, 72, 72, and 76 for a final three-over-par 291 and said afterwards: “I said to my dad that this was a competition for second place. I grew up on a windy course and I’m usually pretty decent in the wind.

“The conditions changed so much on the final day, I went from a driver and four iron on one hole to a driver and a pitching wedge.

“It was really windy and a few of the others dropped back, but it went right to the end; it was really tight.

“All the scoreboards were mixed up, I knew I had a chance of second, but we had no idea what anybody had shot until later.

“I am really excited to win the trophy, there are some very good names on there. John (Eyre) called me straight after the news, he was really excited. We have been working together for 10 or 11 years and the hard work over the winter is paying off.”

Morris, who plays off +2, now looks forward to the English Women’s Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship at St Anne’s Old Links on August 4: “My game is good,” she said.

“There is just some work on fine tuning, but I am feeling pretty confident that I can come out with a good result.”