{"id":288727,"date":"2025-11-28T23:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T23:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/288727\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T23:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T23:27:07","slug":"foster-inside-top-20-but-cheenglab-powers-clear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/288727\/","title":{"rendered":"Foster inside top-20 but Cheenglab powers clear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anna Foster carded a second successive round of 70 to lie inside the top-20 at the Open de Espana in Andalucia.<\/p>\n<p>The Dubliner remains the best performing of the Irish trio after a strange round in which she weathered two double-bogeys at par-3s along with another dropped stroke at the 15th but countered that with seven birdies over the course of her round.<\/p>\n<p>She is currently on four-under par at the halfway point but finds herself 11 shots adrift of the leader, Thailand&#8217;s Trichat Cheenglab, who has opened up a major gap between herself and the field, with a stunning nine-under par 63 on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/results\/golf\/ladies-european-tour-1\/24592\/andalucia-open-de-espana-900257\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FULL LEADERBOARD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Thai player is on 15-under overall, seven strokes clear of the chasing pack, led by Italy&#8217;s Alessandra Fanali on eight-under.<\/p>\n<p>Foster is one shot ahead of her compatriot Lauren Walsh, the Kildare golfer matching her round of 70 on Friday. Walsh eagled the par-5 fourth hole but couldn&#8217;t build on that, her remaining four birdies being cancelled out by four bogeys.<\/p>\n<p>Sara Byrne, the remaining Irish player in the field, is at even par after a second consecutive round of 72.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anna Foster carded a second successive round of 70 to lie inside the top-20 at the Open de&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-288727","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\/288727","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=288727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}