{"id":135308,"date":"2025-09-13T20:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T20:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/135308\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T20:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T20:16:08","slug":"hewson-defends-swiss-title-as-irish-duo-finish-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/135308\/","title":{"rendered":"Hewson defends Swiss title as Irish duo finish high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lauren Walsh produced a stunning finish to finish in a tie for second while Sara Byrne was just a shot behind her as England&#8217;s Alice Hewson successfully defended the Swiss Ladies Open.<\/p>\n<p>Hewson had lifted the crown at Golfpark Holzhausern last year, and she signed off the 54-hole tournament in style with a trio of birdies giving her a five-shot winning margin as she finished on 13-under.<\/p>\n<p>Walsh, who turned 24 on Thursday, looked set for a frustrating day\u2019s work as she played her first 15 holes in two-over par. However, she birdied the 16th and eagled the 17th to move to eight-under and in a tie for second alongside home favourite Chiara Tamburlini and Sweden\u2019s Kajsa Arwefjall &#8211; the latter\u2019s 65 the low round of the day.<\/p>\n<p>Until Walsh\u2019s stirring finish, Byrne looked like she would be the top Irish finisher after an impressive day\u2019s work that left her on seven-under par.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/results\/golf\/ladies-european-tour-1\/24592\/swiss-ladies-open-896771\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FULL LEADERBOARD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Cork golfer had five birdies on her card with her only blemish coming on the 14th as she secured a tie for fifth alongside England\u2019s Amy Taylor.<\/p>\n<p>Annabel Wilson was unable to make any real ground on Saturday as she shot a level-par 71 to stay at two-under par.<\/p>\n<p>Irish pair Canice Screene and Olivia Mehaffey failed to make the cut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lauren Walsh produced a stunning finish to finish in a tie for second while Sara Byrne was just&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-135308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}