{"id":776162,"date":"2026-09-19T21:26:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T21:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/776162\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T21:26:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T21:26:28","slug":"walsh-in-the-hunt-as-weather-disrupts-play-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/776162\/","title":{"rendered":"Walsh in the hunt as weather disrupts play in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lauren Walsh will be the leading Irish player heading into the final round of weather-disrupted La Sella Open in Spain on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Poor weather on Friday had seen disruption to the second round, and further thundery rain today led organisers to take the decision to reduce the event to a 54-hole tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Walsh played the final two holes of her second round this morning, picking up a birdie on 18 and signing for a 73 to finish on two under par.<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte Heath has a healthy lead heading into the third and final round after hitting a 65, including an eagle on the 12th, to move to 11 under par; that&#8217;s four strokes clear of the chasing pack.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/results\/golf\/ladies-european-tour-1\/30194\/la-sella-open-921462\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Full leaderboard<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aine Donegan was in a battle to make the final round overnight, with six holes of her second round left to play.<\/p>\n<p>But the Clare woman found two birdies to get to level par and a tie for 25th.<\/p>\n<p>Sara Byrne is a shot further back on one over par having managed to complete her round before the worst of the weather arrived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lauren Walsh will be the leading Irish player heading into the final round of weather-disrupted La Sella Open&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-776162","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\/776162","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=776162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}