By Matt Smith
Age seems to just be a number for Chiara Noja. Sometimes so too for scorecards. The 16-year-old Dubai resident shredded the course and opposition once again on Saturday in Prague and is beginning to turn a few heads. She seemed to send a statement of intent to her peers at the Czech Ladies Challenge on the Ladies European Tour Access Series.

She was simply sublime on Friday, racing out to a six-stroke lead at Prague City Golf Course on the opening day. Sure, anyone gets lucky… But this was no flash in the pan.

Chiara waited for her afternoon start on Day 2, watching the leaderboard, and then went out and just did her own thing.

This was a one-horse race with a bit of class. Chiara patiently waited for her tee time them calmly turned her six-stroke advantage into an 11-under, 10-stroke buffer going into the last day.

Home hope Sara Kouskova is second on her own a whopping 10 (TEN!) strokes back in the €37,000 event in the Czech Republic. Czech amateurs Karolina Stara and Patricie Mackova are 12 adrift in tied-third.

“it was really fun out there,” Chiara said, never one to get above her station.

Starting on the first tee on Saturday, after beginning on the 10th on Day 1, Chiara was once again into her stride from the off, turning in 32, just like Friday, to leave the competition trailing. Three dropped shots on the back nine would be considered a wobble by some, but Chiara nullified that with another three birdies to post a 68 and is on the verge of her biggest moment as a pro golfer.

Play on, Chiara.

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