{"id":322138,"date":"2026-02-28T17:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T17:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/322138\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T17:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T17:15:09","slug":"donegan-slips-back-at-ford-womens-nsw-open-in-oz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/322138\/","title":{"rendered":"Donegan slips back at Ford Women&#8217;s NSW Open in Oz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c1ine Donegan endured a challenging third round at the Ford Women&#8217;s NSW Open in Australia, a three-over-par 74 leaving her four off the lead on eight-under heading into the final day of action.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old Clare woman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/golf\/2026\/0227\/1560755-donegan-soars-into-lead-in-let-debut-down-under\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">was top of the leaderboard at the halfway point<\/a> after shooting a brilliant second-round 63 at Wollongong links to move to 11-under-par.<\/p>\n<p>This is Donegan&#8217;s professional debut on the Ladies European Tour. She secured her card for 2026 last December after coming through Lalla Aicha Q-school in Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>The harsh realities of life in the pro game were laid bare as birdies at her first and last holes were undermined by five bogeys in between. Still, it&#8217;s been a really impressive showing by Donegan to date, and she still has the opportunity to make a charge on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Australian Hannah Reeves shot a 66 to hit the front on 12-under, one clear of her compatriot Kelsey Bennett.<\/p>\n<p>Dubliner Anna Foster is four-under overall in a tie for 29th after getting home with a one-under 70.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00c1ine Donegan endured a challenging third round at the Ford Women&#8217;s NSW Open in Australia, a three-over-par 74&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-322138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}