Leona Maguire has become accustomed to fitting the pieces of a puzzle into place, making life on tour work, with this week’s stop in China for the Buick LPGA Championship in Shanghai another example of how adaptability is required to deliver results.
For Maguire, this closing stretch of the LPGA Tour season is one of criss-crossing timelines: for instance, this latest travel log saw her depart Hawaii last Saturday night, fly to Vancouver, Canada, then board a flight to Shanghai for the start of a late-year Asian swing.
Next week it will be South Korea. Then, a few days home in Ireland before travelling to Malaysia. After that, it’s back to Florida for the closing two events of the LPGA Tour, finishing with the megabucks CME Globe Tour Championship – a limited field of the leading 60 players off the order of merit – which has a $4 million (€3.4 million) pot of gold to the winner.
Anyway, there’s a lot of golf to be played between now and then.
The Buick LPGA is Maguire’s 22nd tournament of a season which, so far, she described as “a mixed bag” but with the glass-half-full approach of positivity.
Indeed, there was a twist recently which may
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