Leona Maguire slumped to a disappointing 76 in her final round in China as Korea’s Mi Hyang Lee birdie on the 72nd secured a one-stroke victory at the Blue Bay LPGA at Hainan Island.<\/p>\n
Maguire had been tied-11th and six shots off the lead overnight but saved her worst round until Sunday, carding a messy four-over par score despite registering an eagle on the eighth.<\/p>\n
The two-time LPGA Tour winner undid her good work on that par-5 with a double-bogey on the 10th. She tossed in six bogeys elsewhere, with just two birdies on the fifth and 11th as she fell back to one-under for the tournament and a tie for 18th place.<\/p>\n
Overnight leader Lee claimed her first tour victory in over eight years but it was not without tribulations, the Korean recording two double-bogeys in an outward nine of 40.<\/p>\n
Having surrendered the lead, she pulled it back with three birdies on the way home, including at the last to finish on 11-under par overall, one stroke clear of China’s Weiwei Zhang.<\/p>\n
America’s Auston Kim and India’s Aditi Ashok shared third on eight-under.<\/p>\n
In the Australian Women’s Classic on the European Tour, Aine Donegan also recorded a 76 as she finished on three-over par, 16 shots adrift of comfortable winner Kelsey Bennett.<\/p>\n
Leading by one stroke overnight, the home favourite Bennett battled to a one-under score in brutally tough conditions at Magenta Shores to win by four in the end, as her rivals faltered.<\/p>\n
Her closest pursuers, compatriot Calen McGinty and England’s Meghan MacLaren both posted rounds of 74 to fall back to nine-under.<\/p>\n
“I’m just stoked to have managed to get it across the line today,” Bennett said. “My biggest and best win so far. I couldn\u2019t be happier, to be honest.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leona Maguire slumped to a disappointing 76 in her final round in China as Korea’s Mi Hyang Lee…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-466024","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\/466024","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=466024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}