{"id":507704,"date":"2026-02-27T14:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/507704\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T14:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:32:08","slug":"aine-donegan-makes-dream-debut-on-let-with-two-stroke-lead-at-womens-nsw-open-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/507704\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00c1ine Donegan makes dream debut on LET with two-stroke lead at Women\u2019s NSW Open \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clare woman \u00c1ine Donegan made a dream debut on her rookie season on the Ladies European Tour<\/a> by firing a brilliant second round 63 for a 36-holes total of 11-under-par 131 in the Ford Women\u2019s NSW Open at Wollongong links, just south of Sydney.<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old from Ennis\u2019s maiden appearance on the LET was delayed due to a waterlogged course on Thursday but Donegan hit the ground running when she finally played her first round on Friday with a 68 and, after a quick turnaround, posted that 63 in her second round to take a two strokes lead over Australian Sarah Kemp.<\/p>\n

Donegan, a graduate of Louisiana State and a former member of the Britain and Ireland winning Curtis Cup team who earned her LET card at Q-School last year, showed that amateur pedigree on her professional debut in a second round that featured an eagle, seven birdies and a lone bogey.<\/p>\n

Dubliner Anna Foster carded rounds of 72-67 for a 36-holes total of three-under-par 139 and set to comfortably survive the cut which will be made after the second round of the weather-disrupted tournament is completed Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was obviously a dream day,\u201d Donegan said. \u201cI\u2019m a little bit disappointed to finish my second last hole with a bogey, but I\u2019m looking forward to the weekend and yeah, delighted with the start.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously the weather felt a bit more like home, which I knew would come to my advantage a little bit. I knew some people would struggle in the wind and the rain. So I knew that if I just kind of kept the ball in front of me, especially off the tee on this course, you can kind of attack pins and stuff like that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clare woman \u00c1ine Donegan made a dream debut on her rookie season on the Ladies European Tour by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,28635,85],"class_list":["post-507704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-ladies-european-tour","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}