{"id":673373,"date":"2026-07-04T12:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T12:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/673373\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T12:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T12:18:09","slug":"foster-ties-third-in-belgium-after-impressive-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/673373\/","title":{"rendered":"Foster ties third in Belgium after impressive 69"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anna Foster posted a three-under par 69 on Friday to rise on joint-third on day when all three of her compatriot saw their week conclude at the Hulencourt Women&#8217;s Open in Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>On a day when few players broke 70, the Dubliner, in her second year on the Ladies European Tour, recorded five birdies in her second round, with just two dropped strokes to climb to four under par.<\/p>\n<p>She is part of a quintet of players on four under, including England&#8217;s Bronte Law and Switzerland&#8217;s Morgane Metraux.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/results\/golf\/ladies-european-tour-1\/30194\/hulencourt-womens-open-916529\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FULL LEADERBOARD <\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, that group are five strokes adrift of the leader at the midway point, Spain&#8217;s Carolina Chacarra, who separated herself from the competition with a bogey-free 65, taking her to nine under overall.<\/p>\n<p>She leads by two strokes from Australia&#8217;s Kelsey Bennett, who recorded a fine round of 67 on Friday to lie on seven under, three ahead of Foster et al.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining three Irish players will not be around for the weekend, Aine Donegan and Sara Byrne carding rounds of 74 and 76 respectively to sit on seven over par, two strokes outside the cut-line.<\/p>\n<p>Olivia Mehaffey was always struggling after a round of 78 on Thursday and her 74 saw her finish on eight over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anna Foster posted a three-under par 69 on Friday to rise on joint-third on day when all three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-673373","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\/673373","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=673373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}