{"id":730532,"date":"2026-08-07T15:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T15:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/730532\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T15:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T15:22:09","slug":"aine-donegan-tied-for-the-clubhouse-lead-at-pif-london-championship-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/730532\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00c1ine Donegan tied for the clubhouse lead at PIF London Championship \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Ireland\u2019s \u00c1ine Donegan has followed up her strong start at the PIF London Championship with an even better second round to tie for the clubhouse lead at Centurion Club on the Ladies European Tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Lahinch golfer made seven birdies in her four-under-par round of 69, making it 13 birdies for the week so far, to reach seven-under at the top of the leaderboard, alongside Australia\u2019s Kelsey Bennett, who shot a 71 in round two.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Donegan got particularly hot early in the round with birdies at the third, fourth, sixth, seventh and eighth holes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The 24-year-old has a best finish of tied-16th in the Ford New South Wales Open so far in her maiden season on the LET, where she is currently 86th on the order of merit. With a $2 million prize fund this week in London, a high finish would represent a career breakthrough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Elsewhere, Beth Coulter just missed out on a second successive win since turning professional on the LET Access Tour, losing in a playoff to Swedish golfer Moa Svedenskiold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland\u2019s \u00c1ine Donegan has followed up her strong start at the PIF London Championship with an even better&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,154764,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-730532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-ladies-european-tour","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730532","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=730532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}