Full leaderboard<\/a><\/p>\nIreland’s Leona Maguire delighted the home crowd by shooting a superb nine-under-par 63 on day three of the Women’s Irish Open at the K Club to sit seven shots behind leader Casandra Alexander.<\/p>\n
Maguire birdied nine of the first 15 holes in a bogey-free round to lie in a tie for sixth position on 11 under.<\/p>\n
Her birdie putt on the 18th for a 62 lipped out but the Cavan native will be happy to have returned to her best form after two opening rounds of 71.<\/p>\n
Maguire picked up shots on successive holes between the second and the fourth, with further back-to-back birdies coming on the seventh and eighth as she posted 31 shots for her outward nine.<\/p>\n
Further birdies followed for the Europe Solheim Cup player on the 10th, 12th, 14th and 15th holes.<\/p>\n
Heavy rain led to a suspension of play during the afternoon as puddles formed around the County Kildare course but – in terms of occupying top spot in the leaderboard – it was business as usual for South African Alexander, who has led the tournament from day one.<\/p>\n
Alexander fired a 69 to hold a three-shot lead over Czech player Sara Kouskova, whose 67 cut her deficit to the pacesetter by two shots to three – in comparison to her arrears at the end of day two. <\/p>\n
Kajsa Arwefjaell matched Maguire’s round of the day by carding a 63 to move to third place on 13 under with two fellow Swedes, Corinne Viden and Louise Rydqvist, one shot further back after posting third rounds of 69.<\/p>\n
Finn Noora Komulainen shot a 66 to join Maguire on 11 under.<\/p>\n
Anna Foster is next best of the Irish players on seven under, following an impressive 66, while Lily May Humphreys and Hannah Screen lead the English challenge on five under.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Women’s Irish Open – third round -18 C Alexander (SA); -15 S Kouskova (Cze); -13 K Arwefjaell (Swe);…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":757367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-757366","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\/757366","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=757366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/757367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}