{"id":753775,"date":"2026-08-29T17:50:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T17:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/753775\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T17:50:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T17:50:32","slug":"womens-irish-open-casandra-alexander-surges-clear-at-the-k-club-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/753775\/","title":{"rendered":"Women’s Irish Open: Casandra Alexander surges clear at the K Club"},"content":{"rendered":"

Women’s Irish Open – second round<\/p>\n

-15 C Alexander (SA); -10 B Navarossa (US), S Kouskova (Cze); -9 L Rydqvist (Swe), C Viden (Swe); -8 L Pettersson (Swe); -7 A Foersterling (Ger); -5 P Urs (Ind), A Fanali (Ita); N Komulainen (Fin), C Screene (Ire).<\/p>\n

Selected others: -4 L M Humphreys (Eng), A Hewson (Eng); -3 A Dawson (IoM), G Clews (Eng), H Darling (Sco), L Hall (Wal) -2 L Maguire (Ire), A Donegan (Ire); -1 A Foster (Ire), A Wilson (NI); +4 O Mehaffey (NI)<\/p>\n

Full leaderboard<\/a><\/p>\n

Two eagles propelled overnight leader Casandra Alexander to a second-round 66 as the South African seized control of the Women’s Irish Open at the K Club.<\/p>\n

Following a bogey-free 63 on Thursday, Alexander eagled the par-five 10th – her opening hole – on Friday and followed that with back-to-back birdies.<\/p>\n

Having dropped a shot on 13, the 27-year-old carded a birdie two on 17 before recording her second eagle of the round at the third.<\/p>\n

After a bogey on six, a birdie on seven gave Alexander a 36-hole total of 129 to sit five shots clear of the Czech Republic’s Sara Kouskova (68) and American Brianna Navarrosa (65). <\/p>\n

Canice Screene leads the home challenge as she lies in a four-way tie for eighth on five under after mixing seven birdies with two bogeys in a five-under 67, but Aine Donegan slipped back to two under with a disappointing 73. <\/p>\n

After opening with a 71, Leona Maguire reached four under for the tournament but bogeyed two of her last three holes to fall back to two under at the halfway mark. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Women’s Irish Open – second round -15 C Alexander (SA); -10 B Navarossa (US), S Kouskova (Cze); -9…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":753776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-753775","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\/753775","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=753775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/753776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}