{"id":737237,"date":"2026-08-14T00:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T00:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/737237\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T00:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T00:58:10","slug":"foster-leads-irish-charge-at-swiss-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/737237\/","title":{"rendered":"Foster leads Irish charge at Swiss Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anna Foster produced a fine opening 67 to sit just three shots off leader Kajsa Arwefjaell at the VP Bank Swiss Ladies Open.<\/p>\n<p>The Dubliner was in the first threesome of the day, and she made a quick morning start with an eagle at the third the highlight of a four-under-par round that contained only one dropped shot.<\/p>\n<p>It was a more challenging day for the other four Irish golfers in action at Golfpark Holzhausern.<\/p>\n<p>Annabel Wilson is in a tie for 66th after a one-over par start.<\/p>\n<p>On reflection, it ended up a positive outcome as she started with a trio of bogeys. Only one more would follow, on her closing hole, with Wilson showing character to get back towards level par.<\/p>\n<p>Aine Donegan entered the event off the back of a brilliant joint-10th finish at the PIF London Championship, but she is in a real battle to make the cut after a five-over par 76.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of the damage was done at the par-five third hole were she had to card a demoralising eight, with bogeys either side seeing her play that three-hole stretch in five-over.<\/p>\n<p>Sara Byrne is a few shots better on three-over par after a birdieless round while Olivia Mehaffey is six-over par.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/results\/golf\/ladies-european-tour-1\/30194\/swiss-ladies-open-916531\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FULL LEADERBOARD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Arwefjael \u2013 who finished alongside Donegan last week &#8211; leads Spanish duo Luna Sobron Galmes and Amaia Latorre by one shot.<\/p>\n<p>The Swede finished in a tie for second here last year as Alice Hewson claimed a five-shot victory.<\/p>\n<p>Defending champion Hewson, hunting a historic hat-trick in Switzerland, opened with a round of 68 to make a strong start in her second defence of the title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anna Foster produced a fine opening 67 to sit just three shots off leader Kajsa Arwefjaell at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-737237","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\/737237","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=737237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}