{"id":148243,"date":"2025-09-19T22:43:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T22:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/148243\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T22:43:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T22:43:05","slug":"walsh-leads-irish-challenge-at-la-sella-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/148243\/","title":{"rendered":"Walsh leads Irish challenge at La Sella Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A second-round 68 has Lauren Walsh best-placed of the Irish at the La Sella Open in Spain, with the 25-year-old to start her third round 10 shots off clubhouse leader Anna Huang of Canada.<\/p>\n<p>After opening with a 72, Walsh didn&#8217;t drop a shot on Friday at La Sella Golf Resort, four birdies leaving her joint-10th on four-under par.<\/p>\n<p>Annabel Wilson is a further three shots back, a double-bogey at the eighth halting her progress en route to a 73.<\/p>\n<p>A 70 saw Sara Byrne finish on three-over, one shot outside the cut, while Olivia Mehaffey (+4), Canice Screene (+5) and Anna Foster (+11) will also play no part over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/results\/golf\/ladies-european-tour-1\/24592\/la-sella-open-896772\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FULL LEADERBOARD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the top of the standings, teenager Huang followed up her flawless first round with a bogey-free 66.<\/p>\n<p>Huang, who started from the 10th tee, rolled in her first birdie of the day on 12 before another on 13, and she had a tap-in birdie on 18 to make the turn in -3.<\/p>\n<p>The 16-year-old continued her consistent form, rolling in a birdie on the fourth and she added two more on the seventh and the ninth to lead by three strokes with a total of 14-under-par.<\/p>\n<p>France\u2019s Nastasia Nadaud sits in solo second place on 11-under-par after a round of 67.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A second-round 68 has Lauren Walsh best-placed of the Irish at the La Sella Open in Spain, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-148243","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\/148243","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=148243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}