Irish duo Lauren Walsh and Leona Maguire both finished strongly at the Maybank Championship to ensure top-half leaderboard finishes.<\/p>\n
The duo both struggled over the first two rounds at the Kuala Lumpur Golf and Country Club, but rallied on Saturday, and that improved form continued on Sunday’s final round.<\/p>\n
Walsh had an eventful round which featured two bogeys, a double bogey and seven birdies. Five of those birdies came during the final six holes as the Dublin woman finished strongly to sign for a 69.<\/p>\n
That final round score saw Walsh finish the tournament on eight-under-par for a share of 31st place.<\/p>\n
Maguire finished a shot further back from Walsh as her final round of 68 saw her finishing the tournament on seven-under, after hitting five birdies and a bogey.<\/p>\n
At the top of the leaderboard, Japan’s Miyu Yamashita made history by successfully defending the title she won last year. She finished on an 22-under-par, securing victory by two strokes after a final-round 68.<\/p>\n
Yamashita became the first player to win consecutive Maybank Championship titles, collecting the $450,000 prize and her fifth win on the LPGA Tour.<\/p>\n
China’s Yan Liu claimed second place with 20-under, while France\u2019s Pauline Roussin-Bouchard and Thailand\u2019s amateur Marisa Tojai shared third at 19-under.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irish duo Lauren Walsh and Leona Maguire both finished strongly at the Maybank Championship to ensure top-half leaderboard…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":902164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-902163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}