{"id":840297,"date":"2026-08-01T11:50:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T11:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/840297\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T11:50:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T11:50:29","slug":"irish-trio-miss-the-cut-at-aig-womens-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/840297\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish trio miss the cut at AIG Women’s Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leona Maguire has narrowly missed the cut at the AIG Women’s Open in Royal Lytham and St Anne’s after a costly three-over par round of 74.<\/p>\n

Starting the day at two-over par, Maguire made a poor start early on Friday with successive bogeys on the opening two holes.<\/p>\n

But she rallied near the end of her front nine, with a birdie at the par-five sixth and then the short ninth hole bringing her back to two-over par.<\/p>\n

However, a double-bogey at the 13th was followed by another dropped stroke at the 14th and she fell back to five-over par overall.<\/p>\n

With the cut at four-over par, it meant Maguire was unable to avoid a fourth missed cut at a major in 2026. It would be her first missed cut at the Women’s British Open since 2020, her best finish being tied-fourth at Muirfield in 2022.<\/p>\n

Lauren Walsh will also assuredly not be around for Saturday after a second successive round of 75 left the Kildare woman on eight-over par for the tournament.<\/p>\n

Anna Foster, who only booked her spot at the event on Monday, will also play no part at the weekend after a 76 dropped her back to nine-over par.<\/p>\n

A run of two double bogeys on 10 and 13, along with another dropped shot on 11 played a part as she the Dubliner descended down the leaderboard.<\/p>\n

FULL LEADERBOARD<\/a><\/p>\n

Favourite Ryu Hae-ran \u2060holds the halfway lead after recovering from a rocky start to her second round to post a two-under 69 and reach seven-under for the tournament.<\/p>\n

World number three Ryu, who came into the week as a hot favourite after winning the PGA Championship and this month’s Evian Championship, bogeyed her third hole and double-bogeyed the fifth to slip back early in her second round.<\/p>\n

But the South Korean responded superbly and was flawless after that with five birdies, including one on the 18th that gave her the outright lead heading into a weekend where she will try not to think about her pursuers.<\/p>\n

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\nRyu Hae-ran \u2060leads the way<\/p>\n

Japan’s Shiho Kuwaki went out early and was the long-time clubhouse leader after carding a solid one-under 70 on a day marked by extremely slow play with the afternoon groups taking well over five hours.<\/p>\n

Defending champion Miyu Yamashita was packing her bags \u200cafter a quadruple bogey at the par-four 18th meant she missed the cut with a second-round 77.<\/p>\n

Overnight leader Jeeno Thitikul of Thailand went round in nine more shots than her stunning \u2060first-round 64 as a two-over 73 left her tied with American Yealimi Noh, two shots off the lead, while Joo \u200cSoo-bin was a further two shots adrift and alone in fifth place.<\/p>\n

World number one Nelly Korda, like Ryu bidding for a third major this season, hit back after an opening-round 73 with a six-birdie 68 \u2060putting her in the mix for the weekend at one-under along with 2024 champion Lydia Ko of New Zealand.<\/p>\n

England’s world number five Lottie Woad maintained her steady progress with a level-par 71, although a bogey at the 18th, only her third in two rounds, where she drove into a deep pot bunker, left her five shots adrift of Ryu.<\/p>\n

Woad is trying to become the first home winner since Georgia Hall, also at Lytham, in 2018.<\/p>\n

She was in a group of eight players packed together on two-under, including compatriot Charley Hull.<\/p>\n

Japan’s Minami Katsu and American duo Lucy Li and Jing Yan are \u200calso on two under after all shooting three-under 68s.<\/p>\n

Additional reporting: Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leona Maguire has narrowly missed the cut at the AIG Women’s Open in Royal Lytham and St Anne’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-840297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}