{"id":608425,"date":"2026-08-29T16:26:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T16:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/608425\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T16:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T16:26:14","slug":"maguire-hits-sparkling-63-at-rain-soaked-k-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/608425\/","title":{"rendered":"Maguire hits sparkling 63 at rain-soaked K Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leona Maguire enjoyed a sparkling return to form with a nine under par 63 in her third round at a rain-drenched K Club in the KPMG Women&#8217;s Irish Open.<\/p>\n<p>Maguire cut a slightly frustrated figure after her one under par 71 on Friday, telling reporters afterwards that she could have been 10 under par but for a poor putting display.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, she went close to hitting exactly that, a birdie putt lipping out on the 18th which would have delivered her a round of 62.<\/p>\n<p>Her birdie blitz under dark skies commenced early, with three on the trot between the second and fourth holes, with further back-to-back birdies coming on the seventh and eighth as she turned in 31 strokes.<\/p>\n<p>There was no let-up on the back nine with more birdies on the 10th and the short 12th. Her tally rose to eight on the 14th before she curled in a right-to-left breaking putt for yet another birdie on the 15th.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">Leona Maguire has been in scintillating form at a rainy K Club, rattling in nine birdies in her first 15 holes to rise to fourth place in the KPMG Women&#8217;s Irish Open<\/p>\n<p>Watch live on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RTE2\" rel=\"nofollow\">@rte2<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RTEplayer\" rel=\"nofollow\">@rteplayer<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cz7U5N3TAq\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/cz7U5N3TAq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RT\u00c9 Sport (@RTEsport) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RTEsport\/status\/2093692170293133366\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 29, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By the end of her round, Maguire was tied-fourth on 11 under, but the rain was becoming increasingly heavy, with vast puddles forming the course. This forced a suspension to play with leader Casandra Alexander on the 10th hole.<\/p>\n<p>The South African, who has led the tournament since Day 1, is three under par for the day and 18 under overall and still holds a commanding five-stroke lead from Sara Kouskova of the Czech Republic in second place.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/results\/golf\/ladies-european-tour-1\/30194\/womens-irish-open-916532\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FULL LEADERBOARD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maguire was not the only Irish player to make strides on Saturday with Dubliner Anna Foster posting a bogey-free 66 to climb to tied-13th on seven under par.<\/p>\n<p>Her compatriot Canice Screene, the leading Irish player overnight, is also part of the sizable grouping on seven under par, though she has yet to complete her round.<\/p>\n<p>The London-born Irishwoman was two under after 11 holes when play was halted.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c1ine Donegan, who had just teed off on 17, is one stroke further back on six under after a colourful card containing seven birdies and three bogeys.<\/p>\n<p>Lauren Walsh overcame the setback of a triple-bogey on the par-four fourth to card a five under 67, registering eight birdies to reach five under for the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Annabel Wilson, the remaining Irish player to make the cut, bogeyed three of her last four holes to record a one over par 73, leaving her at even par overall.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the KPMG Women&#8217;s Irish Open from Thursday to Sunday at 2pm each day on RT\u00c92 and RT\u00c9 Player<\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leona Maguire enjoyed a sparkling return to form with a nine under par 63 in her third round&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-608425","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\/608425","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=608425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}