Leona Maguire returned from a two-week break with a bang and made seven birdies in a bogey-free 64 to lie only a shot behind the early leaders, American Sarah Schmelzel and Japan’s Minami Katsu within the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship.
“I really feel like my recreation has been in fine condition for the previous couple of months,” Maguire stated. “It is good to start out off with a low one right here.
“It is type of make a whole lot of birdies or get left behind. I believe the objective the subsequent few weeks was to start out hitting extra greens. Thus far so good on that one.”
On the DP World Tour’s FedEx Open de France, Marcus Armitage added a 68 to his opening 64 to guide by two photographs from Denmark’s Jeff Winther and Australian Min Woo Lee on 10 beneath on the midway mark.
Conor Purcell missed the minimize, carding a 72 to complete close to the again of the sector on 9 over.
On the LET’s La Sella Open, Lauren Walsh fired a bogey-free, four-under 68 to enter the weekend tied for tenth on four-under.
She was ten strokes behind Canadian rookie Anna Chaung (16), who shot a bogey-free 66 to guide by three from France’s Natasia Nadaud on 14 beneath.
Annabel Wilson’s 73 left her twenty fourth on one beneath, however Sara Byrne (3-over), Olivia Mehaffey (4 over), Canice Display (5 over) and Anna Foster (11 over) missed the two-under minimize.
On the HotelPlanner Tour, Jonny Caldwell (2 beneath), Dermot McElroy and Max Kennedy (1 over), Liam Nolan (4 over) and Robert Moran (9 over) missed the three-under minimize within the Italian Problem Open, the place South Africa’s JC Ritchie led on 12 beneath.
However there was higher information for the Irish on the newest First Stage occasions on the DP World Tour Qualifying College.
Whereas Kinsale’s John Murphy shot a three-under 67, he agonisingly completed a shot exterior the highest 17 who progressed at Arlandastad Golf in Sweden.
However David Carey, who was sixth on 9 beneath after a 72, made it by way of at Donnington Grove in Newbury, the place Tom Dowdall and Paul McBride shot 69s and Cormac Sharvin a 71 to squeak into the highest 17 with nothing to spare on six beneath.
Niall Kearney (2-under), Marc Boucher (2 over) and Michael Younger (5 over) missed out.
It means six of 17 gamers have made it by way of the seven First Stage qualifiers which have already taken place with Royal Dublin’s Hugh Foley and Whitehead’s John Ross Galbraith making it in latest weeks.
The motion continues subsequent week with Charleville’s Jordan Boles and Fortress’s Robert Moran teeing it up at Frederikshavn Golfklub in Denmark and Stephen Grant, Mark Energy and Alex Maguire taking part in at Golfclub Schloss Ebreichsdorf in Austria.
Limerick’s Tim Rice will play the final of ten First Stage qualifiers at Golf PGA France du Vaudreuil from October 7-10.
There might be 4 Second Stage qualifiers in Spain from October 30 to November 2, with round 312 golfers bidding to make it to the six-round Ultimate Stage battle for playing cards at Infinitum Golf in Tarragona from November 7-12.
A area of 156, which may embody Irish gamers from the HotelPlanner and DP World Excursions, will tee it up on the Ultimate Stage with the highest 20 and ties after six rounds incomes DP World Tour playing cards.
Gamers who make the minimize and end past the highest 20 and ties, however throughout the main 40 gamers and ties, might be eligible for membership on the HotelPlanner Tour.
