{"id":751563,"date":"2026-08-27T16:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T16:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/751563\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T16:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T16:14:10","slug":"maguire-four-shots-adrift-early-on-at-k-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/751563\/","title":{"rendered":"Maguire four shots adrift early on at K Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leona Maguire began with a steady, if not spectacular, round of 71 at the KPMG Women&#8217;s Irish Open, a score that currently leaves her just four shots off the lead at The K Club.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 16 home-based players are teeing it up at the Co Kildare venue with much focus on Maguire as she looks to find form ahead of another Solheim Cup appearance in a fortnight&#8217;s time.<\/p>\n<p>Having dropped from a career-high 10th place in the World Golf Rankings in June 2023, the Cavan golfer currently languishes in 82nd place, and so could do with a good showing on home soil.<\/p>\n<p>Maguire birdie the first, the 10th, before a run of pars until the 16th, where she dropped a shot. Birdies on 18 and the second gave hope of a strong finish but that did not materialise with a five to follow on the par-four sixth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/results\/golf\/ladies-european-tour-1\/30194\/womens-irish-open-916532\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ROUND 1 LEADERBOARD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anna Foster finished with an even-par 72. The Dubliner, who also began on the 10th, carded two birdies early on in between a dropped shot on the 13th. And while she picked up another shot on the second, a double-bogey six at the fourth was a blemish on the way home.<\/p>\n<p>Italian Alessandra Fanali is the clubhouse leader after a 67, a shot clear of England&#8217;s Annabell Fuller.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the KPMG Women&#8217;s Irish Open from Thursday to Sunday at 2pm each day on RT\u00c92 and RT\u00c9 Player<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leona Maguire began with a steady, if not spectacular, round of 71 at the KPMG Women&#8217;s Irish Open,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-751563","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\/751563","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=751563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}