Both Leona Maguire and Lauren Walsh find themselves outside the provisional cutline after the opening round of the LPGA’s Fortinet Founders Cup at Sharon Heights Golf Club in California.
Maguire was first of the two Irish women to get underway, but after parring her opening hole, a disastrous quadruple bogey on the par-4 second gave her an early mountain to climb. She recovered to birdie two of the following seven and turn at +2, but inconsistent play on the back side saw her birdie three and bogey three to finish the day at two-over-par.
With the greens firming up in the afternoon, Walsh was among the late starters off the 10th tee and parred each of her first 11 holes before moving into red figures with a birdie on three.
Back-to-back bogeys followed, but a birdie on…