{"id":438140,"date":"2026-02-21T15:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T15:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/438140\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T15:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T15:41:08","slug":"maguire-bounces-back-in-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/438140\/","title":{"rendered":"Maguire bounces back in Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leona Maguire bounced back from a disappointing second round to move back inside the top 25 at the Honda LPGA Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>The Cavan golfer posted her second 67 of the tournament \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/golf\/2026\/0220\/1559471-maguire-drops-down-the-standings-in-thailand\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">after a momentum-killing 72 in Round 2<\/a> \u2013 to move to 10-under par, 10 shots behind leader Jeeno Thitikul of Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>The world number one birdied her last three holes to get to 20-under par, and will be hoping to round off her birthday week in style having turned 22 on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Starting on the 10th tee, Maguire opened with four pars before picking up back-to-back birdies.<\/p>\n<p>An eagle followed at the first \u2013 her 10th hole \u2013 although she gave some of that back at the next hole for her own dropped shot of the day.<\/p>\n<p>That damage was undone, and her scorecard improved further with birdies at the fourth and seventh holes.<\/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>Home favourite Thitikul holds a one-shot lead at the Siam Country Club with a brilliant 65 pushing South Korea&#8217;s Hyo-Joo Kim into second on 19-under par.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leona Maguire bounced back from a disappointing second round to move back inside the top 25 at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-438140","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\/438140","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=438140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}