Ireland’s Aine Donegan reflected on a “dream day” after a second-round 63 gave her a two-shot lead at the Women’s NSW Open in Australia.<\/p>\n
In her first start as a professional on the Ladies European Tour (LET), the Lahinch golfer followed up an opening 68 to sit 11 at the halfway point at Wollongong Golf Club.<\/p>\n
A flooded course saw play suspended at lunchtime on Thursday with Donegan topping the leader board after fitting in 36 holes on Friday.<\/p>\n
“It was obviously a dream day,” said the 23-year-old rookie, who was the joint leader after the first round of the 2023 US Women’s Open. <\/p>\n
“I’m a little bit disappointed to finish my second last hole with a bogey, but I’m looking forward to the weekend and yeah, delighted with the start.<\/p>\n
“Obviously 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.”<\/p>\n
Donegan sits two shots ahead of Australia’s Sarah Kemp after carding seven birdies, an eagle and a bogey to fall one shot shy of her 2024 Curtis Cup team-mate Mimi Rhodes’ course record from last year.<\/p>\n
Ireland’s Anna Foster carded a second-round 67 to move to three under.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland’s Aine Donegan reflected on a “dream day” after a second-round 63 gave her a two-shot lead at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-509615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509615","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=509615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}