FULL LEADERBOARD<\/a><\/p>\nA bogey at 15 was compounded by another immediately after, though she finished on a positive note, picking up a shot at the last to move to level par.<\/p>\n
It was a more challenging afternoon for Lauren Walsh who slumped to a seven-over 79.<\/p>\n
Despite opening with successive bogeys, she had clawed that back by the sixth before the 25-year-old found choppy waters at the eighth hole. A double-bogey there was followed by two more at the 11th and 12th, plus a bogey at 13 to compound matters.<\/p>\n
With the top 65 and ties making it through the weekend, she sits in a tie for 105th.<\/p>\n
It was also a day of toil for Anna Foster on her way to a round of 84.<\/p>\n
A double-bogey at the second was cancelled out by the fifth with a pair of birdies. Successive bogeys followed before disaster struck at the eighth with a quadruple bogey.<\/p>\n
The Dubliner hit nine at the par-4 16th, while a bogey at the last means she starts the second round on 12 over.<\/p>\n
Korea’s Shin and Coughlin of the United States are the early pace-setters.<\/p>\n
Shin began the day from the 10th with a birdie and added further birdies on the 12th, 14th and 18th holes to make the turn in four-under.<\/p>\n
The 33-year-old made another birdie on the third before a dropped shot on the fourth but finish strong with birdies on holes seven and nine for her round of six-under-par.<\/p>\n
Coughlin, who won the Aramco Championship in April, was in the afternoon wave.<\/p>\n
The 2024 champion knows her way around Dundonald Links and had eight birdies and two bogeys on her scorecard.<\/p>\n
“I just played really solid” she said. “It was pretty difficult out there. I’ve not ever really played it when it’s been this firm, especially off the tee, so quite a few different things off the tee than normal where I used to be able to hit driver a lot of places.<\/p>\n
“I hit it really well, but I made almost everything that I looked at today. It makes it a little bit easier.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leona Maguire leads the Irish challenge on the opening day of the Women’s Scottish Open, where a level-par…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-565514","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\/565514","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=565514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}