{"id":235693,"date":"2025-10-31T10:02:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T10:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/235693\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T10:02:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T10:02:06","slug":"maguire-moving-in-the-right-direction-in-kuala-lumpur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/235693\/","title":{"rendered":"Maguire moving in the right direction in Kuala Lumpur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A second-round 69 saw Leona Maguire move in the right direction at the Maybank Championship in Kuala Lumpur, but she remains 10 shots off runaway leader Hye-Jin Choi.<\/p>\n<p>The Cavan woman, who opened with a 71 on Thursday, started her second round in positive fashion with a birdie at the par-5 10th. Despite giving that back two holes later, a couple more birdies before the turn saw Maguire move to three-under par.<\/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>Successive birdies at the sixth and seventh furthered her momentum, though the round concluded with a bogey at the par-4 ninth.<\/p>\n<p>Maguire heads into the weekend \u2013 though it is a no-cut event \u2013 on four-under par and a tie for 34th.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea&#8217;s Hye-Jin Choi is the player to catch, with her round of 66 moving her to 14-under par and five shots clear of Australia\u2019s Hannah Green and Ruoning Yin of China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A second-round 69 saw Leona Maguire move in the right direction at the Maybank Championship in Kuala Lumpur,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-235693","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\/235693","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=235693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}