{"id":587604,"date":"2026-08-09T03:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T03:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/587604\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T03:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T03:54:14","slug":"aine-donegans-fast-finish-puts-her-on-course-for-career-best-placing-at-pif-london-championship-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/587604\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00c1ine Donegan\u2019s fast finish puts her on course for career-best placing at PIF London Championship \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Ireland\u2019s \u00c1ine Donegan made a fast finish to her third round at the PIF London Championship with four consecutive birdies to catapult her into third place, but did not manage to make a dent on high-flying Canadian Anna Huang\u2019s lead at Centurion Club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Lahinch golfer was having a mixed day until the 14th hole in London, with three birdies and three bogeys, before exploding into life on the 15, birdieing her way home for a four-under-par 69 for 11-under-par for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/ladies-european-tour\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/ladies-european-tour\/\">Ladies European Tour<\/a> tournament, which has a $2 million prize fund.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Donegan has a best finish of tied-16th in the Ford New South Wales Open so far in her maiden season on the LET, where she is currently 86th on the order of merit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cIt was good. I started off really solid the first six holes or so and had a little not great swing on seven which caused my first bogey,\u201d said Donegan. \u201cI was unlucky with my second shot on eight; I went long and didn\u2019t hit a good first putt and pulled my second putt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cI made a really good 10-footer on nine for par which looking back, I hit a really poor wedge shot and then that probably spurred us on a little bit for the back nine. We could have easily played a really good front nine and been one-over. That was a big putt on nine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cIt\u2019s very rare you have a round of golf that doesn\u2019t have a squeaky point in the middle. I knew I would probably get through that and then Harry [Ewing, her caddie] kept me sane out there as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cWe had really good communication again today and he said to me on 14, I want three birdies coming in now and then I birdied 15, 16 and 17. Walking to 18, I said when you asked for three, I wanted four. It was a nice way to finish, and I probably deserved a little bit of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Huang, just 17 years old but a three-time winner on tour, shot a bogey-free 65 which included six birdies and an eagle to reach 19 under, with Charley Hull three shots behind on 16 under after a 67 on day three.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Thailand\u2019s Patty Tavatanakit and Wales\u2019 Lydia Hall are on 10 under, with Australia\u2019s Kelsey Bennett on nine under. Anna Foster is tied-32nd on one over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland\u2019s \u00c1ine Donegan made a fast finish to her third round at the PIF London Championship with four&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,248071,112],"class_list":["post-587604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-ladies-european-tour","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587604","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=587604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}