{"id":420545,"date":"2026-02-11T20:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T20:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/420545\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T20:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T20:54:08","slug":"walsh-makes-flying-start-in-saudi-ladies-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/420545\/","title":{"rendered":"Walsh makes flying start in Saudi Ladies International"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lauren Walsh made a flying start in the Saudi Ladies International at Riyadh Golf Club this morning, sitting three shots off the clubhouse lead.<\/p>\n<p>Walsh, who bagged a LPGA Tour card last December through her performance in qualifying, shot a five-under-par 67 on the first day of the European Tour event.<\/p>\n<p>The Kildare golfer was bogey-free in the round, notching birdies at the third, fifth, sixth, 14th and 17th hole.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea&#8217;s Hye-Jin Choi and England&#8217;s Mimi Rhodes share the lead on eight-under after carding 64s<\/p>\n<p>Japan&#8217;s Chizzy Iwai sits one shot back in second place, with Manon De Roey and Patty Tavatanakit in a tie for third on six-under.<\/p>\n<p>Dublin&#8217;s Anna Foster sits on two-under after hitting a 70.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lauren Walsh made a flying start in the Saudi Ladies International at Riyadh Golf Club this morning, sitting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-420545","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\/420545","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=420545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}