PROUD Borderer Karis Davidson has earned a highly-coveted card for the US-based golf circuit.

It follows a dramatic last round of the eight-round Ladies Professional Golf Association Tour’s Q-Series in Alabama.

The two-week cumulative tournament awarded the top 45 finishers with playing rights on the LPGA Tour in 2022.

And it included some of the best female golfers in the world – competing for a total purse of $150,000.

Davidson survived a fraught final day with four bogeys in her opening five holes.

But then she showed tremendous grit and her eight-round total of four-under par was just enough to finish in a six-way tie for 41st.

She told the Peeblesshire News this week: “The last round was at the Robert Trent Jones course in Dothan.

“I found the course challenging but pulled it together on the back nine of the final day.

“I’m really stoked to have got through and I’m looking forward to the first tournament which I think is in April and is potentially the Lotte championship in Hawaii.”

Karis’s parents Graeme and Faye Davidson are both from Peebles and she spent her early years in Innerleithen, where she was introduced to golf by her dad when she was four.

The family moved to Australia when Karis was eight.

Her love of the sport continued and she played consistently well at amateur level before deciding to join the pro-ranks after feeling the need for a bigger challenge.

She recorded several top tens and in 2018 finished runner-up at the Ladies Tour’s Victorian Open.

Karis chose to play in the Japan tour over Europe or the USA after mixing with Korean and Japanese youngsters as a member of the Australia and Korea Golf Academy on the Gold Coast from the age of 11.

She played six events on the Japan LPGA Tour this season, her schedule restricted due to COVID issues and made the cut in five of those six events – with a best of 15th at her last start there in July.

She has already made $444,839 in career earnings on the JLPGA Tour with a T4 career-best finish at the 2018 Century21 Ladies Golf Tournament.