{"id":510703,"date":"2026-04-03T12:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T12:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/510703\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T12:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T12:02:08","slug":"maguire-and-walsh-three-off-the-lead-in-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/510703\/","title":{"rendered":"Maguire and Walsh three off the lead in Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leona Maguire and Lauren Walsh are both well in contention after the first round of the Aramco Championship in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

The Irish duo hold a share of 11th place after their rounds of 70 left them on two under, three shots behind Lauren Coughlin and Japan’s Nasa Hataoka and Miyu Yamashita who sit in a three-way tie atop the leaderboard.<\/p>\n

The Aramco Championship, co-sanctioned by the LPGA and Ladies European Tour, features a purse of $4million (\u20ac3.5m) and replaces the T-Mobile Match Play on the schedule.<\/p>\n

Maguire recovered from a bogey at her opening hole to make the turn in level par before hitting three birdies and a solitary on the back nice to sign for a 70.<\/p>\n

Walsh had an even more dramatic turn around. Starting on the 10th hole, she hit three consecutive bogeys from the 13th to the 15th before a birdie on the 16th steadied the ship.<\/p>\n

She then closed out her round with four birdies in her final six holes to shoot up the leaderboard.<\/p>\n

Dublin golfer Anna Foster is also in action but she appears to be in a fight to make the cut after her round of 74 left her right on the projected cut mark of two over.<\/p>\n

LEADERBOARD<\/a><\/p>\n

At the top of the leaderboard Coughlin, Hataoka and Yamashita posted rounds of 67. Three more are a shot further back: Nelly Korda, Jing Yan and South Korea’s Hyo Joo Kim, who has won two straight LPGA Tour events entering the week.<\/p>\n

Coughlin, 33, is trying to get back in contention for an LPGA victory after winning her first two titles in 2024 and being shut out in 2025.<\/p>\n

She could have been the outright first-round leader after \u200ccollecting six birdies through 17 holes, \u2060but she made her only misstep of the day with a bogey at her final hole, the par-four ninth.<\/p>\n

“I feel like I know this place really well,” said Coughlin, who lost in the final of the Match Play last year.<\/p>\n

“Been in a lot of the places (on the course) that you don’t want to be, so I feel like I’ve \u200cbeen able to … I just know the spots that I need to land it to a lot of the pins, where to miss if you have \u2060to.”<\/p>\n

Additional reporting: Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leona Maguire and Lauren Walsh are both well in contention after the first round of the Aramco Championship…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-510703","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\/510703","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=510703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}