{"id":176296,"date":"2025-10-03T00:38:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T00:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/176296\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T00:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T00:38:12","slug":"meadow-well-placed-after-strong-start-in-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/176296\/","title":{"rendered":"Meadow well placed after strong start in Hawaii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephanie Meadow is positioned just outside the top 10 after a strong start at the Lotte Championship in Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>The Antrim woman recorded six birdies in her opening round, including four in six holes between the ninth and 14th, to post a four-under par 68, leaving her tied-11th and four strokes adrift of the leader, Japan&#8217;s Akie Iwai.<\/p>\n<p>Leona Maguire is two strokes further back after a round of 70 on Wednesday left her in tied-40th.<\/p>\n<p>Maguire carded four birdies with two dropped strokes to sit on two-under par on a day of low scoring at the Hoakalei Country Club.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/results\/golf\/lpga-tour-1\/24440\/lotte-championship-896292\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FULL LEADERBOARD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Iwai, who won her first LPGA Tour event at the Portland Classic in August, leads after a superb 64.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year old leads by one stroke from Taiwan&#8217;s Peiyun Chien, Australia&#8217;s Gabriela Ruffels and her Japanese compatriot Nasa Hataoka.<\/p>\n<p>Defending champion A Lim Kim is in a group at six-under in a share for fifth place.<\/p>\n<p>World number two Nelly Korda, meanwhile, is sandwiched between the Irish pair at three-under after opening with a round of 69.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stephanie Meadow is positioned just outside the top 10 after a strong start at the Lotte Championship in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-176296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176296","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=176296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}