{"id":650603,"date":"2026-06-21T13:15:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T13:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/650603\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T13:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T13:15:13","slug":"walsh-finishes-strong-as-yan-leads-in-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/650603\/","title":{"rendered":"Walsh finishes strong as Yan leads in Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A strong finish from Lauren Walsh to her third round at the Meijer LPGA Classic kept her in the red for the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The Kildare golfer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/golf\/2026\/0619\/1579409-maguire-misses-cut-as-walsh-climbs-meijer-leaderboard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">made the weekend<\/a> by a single shot and started moving day very steadily, carding 11 pars before a bogey on the par-four 12th.<\/p>\n<p>A further dropped shot at the par-three 15th saw her slip back to level par but Walsh finished strong with three straight birdies to card a one-under 71 &#8211; good enough for a tie for 46th on three under.<\/p>\n<p>She is 11 shots behind leader Jing Yan at Blythefield Country Club in Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>England&#8217;s Lottie Woad is one shot off the lead going into the final round as she seeks a third LPGA Tour title.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old shot a third-round 68 to reach 13 under and sit second behind American Yan.<\/p>\n<p>Woad, a winner in Cincinnati last month, mixed six birdies with two bogeys in her third round.<\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s Cassie Porter lies third on 12 under.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A strong finish from Lauren Walsh to her third round at the Meijer LPGA Classic kept her in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-650603","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\/650603","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=650603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}