{"id":436664,"date":"2026-02-20T20:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T20:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/436664\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T20:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T20:06:13","slug":"maguire-drops-down-the-standings-in-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/436664\/","title":{"rendered":"Maguire drops down the standings in Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A round of 72 saw Leona Maguire drop down the leaderboard after the second round of the Honda LPGA Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>The Cavan golfer began her 2026 campaign with a round of 67 to leave her two shots off the pace but a subsequent 72 now has her in a share of 33rd spot on five-under par.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s 12 behind leader Somi Lee on 17 under, the South Korean carded a sizzling 61 in a round that contained nine birdies and an eagle two at the par-four 15th.<\/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\">LEADERBOARD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maguire&#8217;s round contained four birdies and as many bogeys, with work for her to do if she is to make the cut. What will disappoint her more was that it was a day of generally low scoring at the Siam Country Club.<\/p>\n<p>Three shots back in second after a 63 is Thailand&#8217;s Jeeno Thitikul, with Chizzy Iawai from Japan (62) and New Zealand&#8217;s Lydia Ko (64) sharing third spot on 13 under.<\/p>\n<p>The Honda LPGA Thailand is the first of three tournaments in Asia in consecutive weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A round of 72 saw Leona Maguire drop down the leaderboard after the second round of the Honda&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-436664","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\/436664","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=436664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}