{"id":792050,"date":"2026-10-04T21:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T21:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/792050\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T21:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T21:40:14","slug":"meadow-in-the-pack-as-thitikul-takes-command","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/792050\/","title":{"rendered":"Meadow in the pack as Thitikul takes command"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stephanie Meadow shot her second consecutive 71 on a day when Jeeno Thitikul took command of the Lotte Championship.<\/p>\n

Thitikul, from Thailand, manager a 67 to move to 17 under par, three strokes clear of South Korea’s Ina Yoon and Germany’s Polly Mack.<\/p>\n

Meadow reached the turn at two under for her round after picking up birdies on the fifth and seventh holes, but she undid some of that good work on the way home, mixing two more birdies with three bogeys.<\/p>\n

It leaves the Jordanstown woman on four under par.<\/p>\n

After staying even par over the front nine with one birdie and one bogey, Thitikul separated from the pack in the back nine at Hoakalei Country Club.<\/p>\n

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She managed five birdies on the way home and is on course for a fourth win of the season.<\/p>\n

Thitikul, the No. 2 player in the Rolex world rankings, is seeking her fourth win of the season. She was a steady presence throughout the round, hitting 12 of 14 fairways and 17 of 18 greens in regulation.<\/p>\n

“To be consistent playing week to week to week, you need to have consistent greens in regulation as well,” Thitikul, who hit 12 of 14 fairways and 17 of 18 greens in regulation, said after her round.<\/p>\n

“You can’t miss a green and shoot 5-under-par every day. It could happen, but it’s not going to happen often. So to have a game that your ball is always on the green is how you can play golf simple.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stephanie Meadow shot her second consecutive 71 on a day when Jeeno Thitikul took command of the Lotte…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-792050","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\/792050","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=792050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}