{"id":708222,"date":"2026-06-01T12:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T12:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/708222\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T12:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T12:24:10","slug":"lauren-walsh-cashes-biggest-cheque-of-her-career-with-third-place-finish-on-lpga-tour-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/708222\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauren Walsh cashes biggest cheque of her career with third-place finish on LPGA Tour \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Ireland\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/lauren-walsh\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/lauren-walsh\/\">Lauren Walsh<\/a> secured a career-best third place finish on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/lpga-tour\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/lpga-tour\/\">LPGA Tour<\/a> with a best round of the week on the final day of the ShopRite LPGA event in New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Kildare woman shot a 67 for a seven-under-par total, finishing two shots behind French golfer Celine Boutier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The 25-year-old had previously had a best finish of tied 61st on the LPGA Tour this season, but earned $133,344 for her efforts at Seaview Hotel &amp; Golf Club, which may lock up her LPGA Tour for next season. Walsh gained 105 places in the Race to CME Globe rankings, up to 53rd place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It was also a positive day for two other Irish golfers as Leona Maguire showed a return to form with a tied-ninth finish after a 68 in her final round, five shots off the lead on four under, a boost ahead of the US Women\u2019s Open at Riviera this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Stephanie Meadow also shot a round 68 to finish tied 21st, her best result in more than two years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Meanwhile, in men\u2019s amateur golf, Stuart Grehan ended a 41-year wait for a home winner when he secured the East of Ireland Men\u2019s Amateur Open Championship at Co Louth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Grehan secured his second East of Ireland crown, having first lifted the trophy as a member of his native Tullamore in 2015. Rounds of 70, 69, 67 and a final round 65 that included a spectacular hole-in-one saw him seal a six-shot victory at 17 under par, also setting a new championship scoring record in the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland\u2019s Lauren Walsh secured a career-best third place finish on the LPGA Tour with a best round of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,190035,167311,146405,85],"class_list":["post-708222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-lauren-walsh","tag-leona-maguire","tag-lpga-tour","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708222","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=708222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}