{"id":739109,"date":"2026-08-15T19:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T19:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/739109\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T19:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T19:00:16","slug":"second-place-finish-for-irelands-foster-in-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/739109\/","title":{"rendered":"Second place finish for Ireland&#8217;s Foster in Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ireland&#8217;s Anna Foster came close to her maiden Ladies European Tour victory, but had to settle for a tied-second finish at the Swiss Ladies Open in Golfpark Holzhausern.<\/p>\n<p>The Dublin golfer carded a slick second round of five-under-par 66 to soar up the leaderboard, and followed up with a comfortable 68 on the final day, but just came undone.<\/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>Eleanor Givens of England came from behind to snatch a one-stroke victory at 13 under-par, with Foster part of a three way tie for second alongside Whitney Hillier and Alexandra Foersterling.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s much needed boost for Anna Foster, who secures a first top ten finish since November, while moving her up to 32nd place in the LET Order of Merit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland&#8217;s Anna Foster came close to her maiden Ladies European Tour victory, but had to settle for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":739110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-739109","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\/739109","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=739109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}