{"id":649361,"date":"2026-06-20T18:24:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T18:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/649361\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T18:24:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T18:24:18","slug":"maguire-misses-cut-as-walsh-climbs-meijer-leaderboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/649361\/","title":{"rendered":"Maguire misses cut as Walsh climbs Meijer leaderboard"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a mixed moving day for the Irish at the Meijer LPGA Classic in Michigan as Leona Maguire slumped to a second consecutive missed cut, but Lauren Walsh moved up the leaderboard.<\/p>\n

World number 79 Maguire, who has had a rollercoaster season thus far, carded a second round of one-over-par 73, to finish in a tie for 94th place, and two shots off the cut.<\/p>\n

The Cavan golfer made a decent start to her round reeling off eight straight birdies before making a birdie four, on 18; her ninth hole of the day.<\/p>\n

From there however, the 31-year-old wavered, making bogeys on her 11th and 15th holes to drop outside the cut mark.<\/p>\n

It was not a similar story for Lauren Walsh however, whose second round of three-under-par 69 saw her move 41 places up the leaderboard on day two and just one shot inside the cut.<\/p>\n

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

The Kildare woman found herself at three-over through three on Thursday but has been soaring since then, making a fast start to Friday’s round.<\/p>\n

Starting on the tenth, Walsh birdied 12 and 13 but dropped shots on the 15th and 17th holes to move back to level par for her day.<\/p>\n

An eagle on the par five 18th catapulted her up the leaderboard, and two more birdies with a bogey in between saw her card a round of 69, and move up to a tie for 49th.<\/p>\n

America’s Jing Yan leads the way on ten-under-par with England’s Lottie Woad and Australia’s Cassie Porter just one shot behind at the halfway stage. Yan and Woad both shot bogey free rounds of six-under-par during Friday’s play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a mixed moving day for the Irish at the Meijer LPGA Classic in Michigan as Leona…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-649361","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\/649361","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=649361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}