{"id":478659,"date":"2026-06-02T05:39:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T05:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/478659\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T05:39:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T05:39:26","slug":"ella-cantwell-wins-golfs-inaugural-womens-west-of-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/478659\/","title":{"rendered":"Ella Cantwell wins golf’s inaugural women’s West of Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Offaly golfer Ella Cantwell was an impressive winner of the inaugural Women’s West of Ireland Championship at Castle Dargan Golf Club in Sligo on bank-holiday Monday.<\/p>\n

The 17-year-old finished on 18-under-par for her three rounds, eight shots clear of the rest of the field.<\/p>\n

Cantwell, who comes from same Esker Hills Golf Club as former men’s West of Ireland winner Shane Lowry (2008), equalled the course record with her opening round on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

She carded a nine-under-par 65 to match the previous best set by Roscommon’s Olivia Costello four years ago.<\/p>\n

Cantwell spoke to Ocean FM Sport’s Austin O’Callaghan after Monday’s win.<\/p>\n

Despite being just 17, Cantwell was not the younger player in the West of Ireland field.<\/p>\n

11-year-old Mirah Mijumbi from Roganstown GC, made the cut to reach the final day’s play – and she finished tied for 21st overall.<\/p>\n

View the final leaderboard here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Offaly golfer Ella Cantwell was an impressive winner of the inaugural Women’s West of Ireland Championship at Castle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-478659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478659","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=478659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}