{"id":413712,"date":"2026-04-23T16:19:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T16:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/413712\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T16:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T16:19:12","slug":"donegan-best-of-the-irish-as-schmidt-leads-south-african","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/413712\/","title":{"rendered":"Donegan best of the Irish as Schmidt leads South African"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c1ine Donegan is the best of the Irish after the opening round of the South African Women&#8217;s Open, with Patricia Schmidt leading the way after her round of 63.<\/p>\n<p>Donegan carded a 70 at the Royal Cape GC, the highlight being an eagle at the par-5 14th, with earlier birdes coming on five and 11. Her only dropped shot came on the ninth as the Co Clare competitor lie on three under overall.<\/p>\n<p>A shot further back is Anna Foster. Her 71 was made up of four birdies but she encountered trouble at nine and 10, with a double-bogey and bogey respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Olivia Mehaffey shot 72.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/results\/golf\/ladies-european-tour-1\/30194\/south-african-womens-open-916215\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LEADERBOARD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Germany&#8217;s Schmidt had a two-shot advantage, the highlight of her round came with an eagle on 11 to go alongside eight birdies.<\/p>\n<p>Smilla Soenderby of Denamrk lies second after her 65, with five players sharing third: Alessia Nobilio, Emma Spitz, Eseme Hamilton, Emma Grechi and Pia Banik.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00c1ine Donegan is the best of the Irish after the opening round of the South African Women&#8217;s Open,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-413712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413712","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=413712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}