Leona Maguire was unable to preserve her 100% singles record in the Solheim Cup at Bernadus Golf Course in the Netherlands but it mattered little as Europe won 15-13 against the United States.<\/p>\n
The Irish woman fell to a 2&1 defeat to Lauren Coughlin.<\/p>\n
The sides were deadlocked at 8-8 at the start of the day and Maguire was the ninth European player out, pitted against Minneapolis-born Coughlin.<\/p>\n
Maguire had won her three previous singles matches but found the American a tough nut to crack in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n
A par at the opening hole was enough for Coughlin to land the first blow.<\/p>\n
The 31-year-old demonstrated her class at the fifth, navigating the downslope at the back of a bunker, but her approach skipped along the green. To compound matters, Coughlin carefully set up a birdie chance to go two up.<\/p>\n
The advantage was stretched to three by the seventh with Maguire unable to match her in-form opponent.<\/p>\n
Coughlin left her putt at 13 right in the jaws, and Maguire responded by reducing the deficit to two strokes.<\/p>\n
The 31-year-old seemed to release her frustration with how her round had played out, fist-pumping her way to collect her ball but it was as close as she got as Coughlin earned what could have been a crucial point as things drew to a potentially dramatic conclusion.<\/p>\n
However, Europe finished strongly with Lottie Woad – who struggled all week – hitting the putt to regain the title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leona Maguire was unable to preserve her 100% singles record in the Solheim Cup at Bernadus Golf Course…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-623601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623601","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=623601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}