{"id":434633,"date":"2026-02-19T18:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/434633\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T18:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:25:07","slug":"maguire-starts-2026-with-promising-67-in-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/434633\/","title":{"rendered":"Maguire starts 2026 with promising 67 in Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leona Maguire produced a promising opening 67 to sit just two shots off the lead following the first round of the Honda LPGA Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>Starting on the 10th, the Cavan golfer \u2013 in her first competitive round of 2026 &#8211; hit four birdies and a bogey going out, before further birdies at the first and ninth saw her move to five-under par, two shots off Thailand&#8217;s Chanettee Wannasaen and Japan\u2019s Nasa Hataoka.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/results\/golf\/lpga-tour-1\/29537\/honda-lpga-thailand-913222\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FULL LEADERBOARD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maguire\u2019s only blemish came at the par-three 16th in what was a drastic improvement on last year\u2019s first round at the Siam Country Club when she carded a disappointing 74.<\/p>\n<p>She is currently in a group of 10 players who are tied for sixth.<\/p>\n<p>Scotland\u2019s Gemma Dryburgh made a scintillating start to her round as she moved to five-under par after just four holes, but she was unable to really build on that start as she finished on six-under par, a shot off the leaders.<\/p>\n<p>The Honda LPGA Thailand is the first of three tournaments in Asia in consecutive weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leona Maguire produced a promising opening 67 to sit just two shots off the lead following the first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-434633","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\/434633","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=434633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}