{"id":819217,"date":"2026-10-31T00:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T00:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/819217\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T00:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T00:46:12","slug":"liam-nolan-improves-position-in-hotelplanner-tour-grand-final-ahead-of-weekend-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/819217\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Nolan improves position in HotelPlanner Tour Grand Final ahead of weekend \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Liam Nolan improved on his score and his position on the leaderboard after day two of the Grand Final on the HotelPlanner Tour in Mallorca.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Galway man shot a three-under-par 69 that avoided errors like the double bogey of the previous day, with four birdies and a single bogey around Club de Golf Alcanada. After a 70 in round one, it left him on five under in tied 18th, eight shots behind the leader, France\u2019s Julien Sale, on 13 under.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Netherlands\u2019 Lars Van der Vight is a shot further back on 12 under, with Spain\u2019s Joseba Torres on 11 under.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Most importantly, Nolan is still within the top 15, who get <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dp-world-tour\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dp-world-tour\/\">DP World Tour<\/a> cards at the conclusion of the event. The 26-year-old started the week in 10th position and is currently projected to finish 12th in the rankings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Grand Final is a 45-man field where all players have a chance to get a DP World Tour card, with significant points on offer. A top-seven finish would guarantee him his card in his second full season as a professional no matter what happens elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">On the LPGA Tour, Leona Maguire and Lauren Walsh are well off the pace on one over and two over respectively at the Maybank Championship in Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Japan\u2019s Miyu Yamashita leads on 13 under, two strokes ahead of Spain\u2019s Julia Lopez Ramirez and France\u2019s Pauline Roussin-Bouchard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Nolan improved on his score and his position on the leaderboard after day two of the Grand&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[43452,5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-819217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-dp-world-tour","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819217","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=819217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}