{"id":234567,"date":"2025-10-30T19:34:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T19:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/234567\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T19:34:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T19:34:19","slug":"maguire-begins-with-opening-round-71-in-kuala-lumpur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/234567\/","title":{"rendered":"Maguire begins with opening round 71 in Kuala Lumpur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leona Maguire sits seven shots off the lead after an opening round 71 at the Maybank Championship in Kuala Lumpur.<\/p>\n<p>The Cavan woman, who began at the 10th hole, turned at two-under following birdies at the 11th, 15th and 18th holes, with one dropped shot at the 14th.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/results\/golf\/lpga-tour-1\/24440\/maybank-championship-896298\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FULL LEADERBOARD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back-to-back bogeys at the first and second holes saw her slip back to level par before a birdie on the par-three eighth was enough for 71 at Kuala Lumpur Golf and Country Club.<\/p>\n<p>She is tied for 51st in a field of 78 where South Korea&#8217;s Hye-Jin Choi leads the way on eight-under par. Her blemish-free round included half a dozen birdies and an eagle at the par-5 third hole.<\/p>\n<p>She holds a one-shot lead over Italy\u2019s Benedetta Moresco and Scotland\u2019s Gemma Dryburgh.<\/p>\n<p>The Maybank Championship is a no-cut event where a $3m (\u20ac2.6m) purse, as well as coveted points, are on offer with just three events remaining on the regular season schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leona Maguire sits seven shots off the lead after an opening round 71 at the Maybank Championship in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-234567","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\/234567","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=234567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}