{"id":817701,"date":"2026-10-29T15:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T15:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/817701\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T15:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T15:42:10","slug":"tepid-start-for-maguire-and-walsh-at-maybank-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/817701\/","title":{"rendered":"Tepid start for Maguire and Walsh at Maybank Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ireland’s Leona Maguire and Lauren Walsh got off to a slow start on day one of the Maybank Championship on the LPGA Tour.<\/p>\n

Maguire sits in a tie for 47th place eight shots off leader Pauline Roussin-Bouchard, with Walsh three further back in a tie for 70th after Thursday’s opening round in Kuala Lumpur.<\/p>\n

Cavan golfer Maguire made the turn in one over par after bogeys on the second and fifth holes, with a birdie on the fourth sandwiched in between.<\/p>\n

Another bogey followed at the par-four 12th, but the Solheim Cup star rallied with a birdie on the 16th hole, and a birdie-four on the par-five closing hole to make it into the clubhouse at level par.<\/p>\n

FULL LEADERBOARD<\/a><\/p>\n

Walsh – starting off the 10th tee – made birdies on 14 (her fifth hole) and 16 (her seventh) to head out in two under par. However, her round spiralled over a five-hole stretch on her second nine. Bogeys on two, four and six, plus a double bogey on the par-five fifth hole saw her drop five shots, before carding an opening three-over-par 75.<\/p>\n

France’s Roussin-Bouchard leads the way after a bogey-free eight under par, with USA’s Sophia Shubert and Japan’s Miyu Yamashite on seven under.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland’s Leona Maguire and Lauren Walsh got off to a slow start on day one of the Maybank…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-817701","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\/817701","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=817701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}