Leona Maguire returns to competitive duty for this week’s Maybank Championship in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia as she seeks to finish the LPGA Tour season on a high.
After a week off, not being eligible for the Crown International team competition won by Australia last week, Maguire – currently 53rd on the CME Globe standings – is headed into a late season run that will also see her play in next month’s The Annika tournament with the aim to making it all the way to the season-ending Tour Championship in Florida. The top-60 players on the order of merit qualify for the megabucks finale.
On the LET front, Lauren Walsh’s third-place finish in the weather-shortened Wistron Open in Taiwan has moved the Kildare woman up to the 10th place on the LET order of merit with just two events – the Aramco China Championship in Shenzhen next week and the season-ending Race to Mallorca event in Andalucia in late November – remaining.
Walsh’s position on the order of merit puts her within reach of securing pla
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