Maguire storms into semi final of T-Mobile Matchplay

Ronan MacNamara
|
|

Leona Maguire (Photo by Orlando Ramirez/Getty Images)

Ronan MacNamara

Feature Interviews

Latest Stories

Leona Maguire was the number one seed heading into the quarter-finals of the T-Mobile Matchplay presented by MGM Rewards and she lived up to her billing with a dominant win over Moriya Jutanugarn.

Maguire roared into the semi finals courtesy of a thumping 4&3 win over her Thai opponent and she will face Sei Young Kim in the last four.

Kim breezed by Rose Zhang 6&5 in her quarter final.

A par at the first gave Maguire the early lead and she never relinquished it, rolling in a birdie on the third and she recovered from losing the fourth with a par on the fifth to return 2UP before another birdie on the par-3 8th saw her turn three holes in front.

In blustery and cold conditions again, pars were good and Maguire made two in a row on 11 and 12 to move 5UP. Jutanugarn won the 14th with a par to reduce the deficit to four but it was too little too late.

Maguire finished in style, almost holing out with a pitch on the 15th.

“This golf course is very demanding. It was nice to get my first par of the week on the second. I tried to just approach it like stroke play, as if today was round four of the tournament, and tried to play as well as I could.

“I knew Mo had a lot of great momentum from her really great round yesterday in the playoff, so knew I was going to have to play some really good golf this morning to beat her.”

Stay ahead of the game. Subscribe to our newsletter to get the latest Irish Golfer news straight to your inbox!

More News

Leave a comment


The reCAPTCHA verification period has expired. Please reload the page.

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy & Terms of Service apply.