Leona Maguire - LPGA Winner 2022/23

Joe_ Public

T53 for Leona Maguire on her third outing in the Symetra Tour this weekend, winning a grand total of $861. She's now 67th on the money list with 10 tournaments remaining so plenty of time to improve her position. Stephanie Meadow is still well there in 7th.

Joe_ Public

Another MC for Leona Maguire on the Symetra Tour this week. Seems to be taking her some time to find her bearings on the pro circuit.

Stephanie Meadow 2nd, beaten in a play off, another good showing that will cement her place inside the order of merit top 10.

diegocosta99

It's been underwhelming at best for Leona so far. I'm surprised at that after her stellar amateur career.

Joe_ Public

Yeah, she's played a few events now and fair to say she hasn't quite caught fire yet. At the same time doubt she expected to go out on her own and blaze a trail from the off. Takes time to settle in I'd say, especially when she's been used to travelling and playing on a team basis for much of her career. No need to panic just yet, far from Justin Rose territory yet!

Spideog Rua

diegocosta99 wrote: »

It's been underwhelming at best for Leona so far. I'm surprised at that after her stellar amateur career.

Nonsense, she has only played 7 times and already had a top 20 finish in her first half season as a pro. Give her time

Has Lisa played at all since?

paulos53

-5 today and currently shares the lead on the Symetra tour

Joe_ Public

paulos53 wrote: »

-5 today and currently shares the lead on the Symetra tour

Good round of golf today. Currently only 13 players under par so to shoot -5 looks like good going. Hopefully that lights the spark for bigger and better things.

diegocosta99

Nice round. I hope she entered the twos.

Webbs

diegocosta99 wrote: »

It's been underwhelming at best for Leona so far. I'm surprised at that after her stellar amateur career.

I think back to Justin Rose and his missed 20 odd cuts after turning pro following a great amateur career. He hasnt done too badly since

slave1

Webbs wrote: »

I think back to Justin Rose and his missed 20 odd cuts after turning pro following a great amateur career. He hasnt done too badly since

or Harrington's amounts of runner ups before he broke through

Joe_ Public

+2 today leaving her -3 overall. Little bit disappointing she couldn’t consolidate yesterday’s fine round but still only 3 off the lead going into final round and still all to play for.

slave1

3 under today, lying joint third

paulos53

Another decent week for Leona. Finished T11th with Stephanie Meadow a shot further back in T14th

Joe_ Public

See they are at Stage 2 qualifying for the LPGA this week. Not a great start for Leona Maguire unfortunately with a +2 that’s going to leave her well down the field. Still 3 rounds to go, assume there’s a halfway cut though not certain. Needs to be top 25 to have a chance of reaching final stage so lot of work to do.

paulos53

Fortunately there is no cut this week so plenty of time to make a move.

It seems that the top 25 & ties are guaranteed qualification to the final stage of Q School but it could go as high as 46 players.

Joe_ Public

Yeah see how it works now, kind of. Looks like top 46 is the target. Gonna need a decent under par round to have a chance, no ground going to be made today it looks like.

mickmackmcgoo

Joe_ Public wrote:

Yeah see how it works now, kind of. Looks like top 46 is the target. Gonna need a decent under par round to have a chance, no ground going to be made today it looks like.

She is only 2 shots off of T44th. Anything under par tomorrow will have her thereabouts

Joe_ Public

mickmackmcgoo wrote: »

She is only 2 shots off of T44th. Anything under par tomorrow will have her thereabouts

Not sure what the course conditions are like but not all that many under par rounds coming in, both days so far. She’ll be 2 or 3 shots off the pace by end of day likely, so all to play for still for sure. Hopefully get a low score tomorrow or pressure going to be huge on final round.

Joe_ Public

Better today, -2 which looks like it’ll leave her 2 shots shy of the target which is Top 25 and ties. Probably needs same again or possibly better tomorrow to have a chance but good signs today at least!

ForeRight

Looks like she has missed out

Joe_ Public

Yeah not going to be sadly, looks like another year on secondary tour ahead. Pretty certain she’d have made it comfortably had she played more events so consider this more of a temporary blip than a disaster.

Edit: just one shot short in the end. Very frustrating, really gutted for her.

Beaulieu

Pro life is tough. Leona though needs to work on her length off the tee. I'm surprised but she hasn't exactly lit up the Symetra Tour even in the 10 or so starts that she has had since turning pro in the early summer.

Joe_ Public

Length off the tee is never bad but not sure it’s such an insurmountable thing on the LPGA. According to symetra site Maguire averaged above 250 yards off the tee which would put her around 100 on both tours. Sure an extra 10-15 yards would be nice but the likes of Inbee Park, Lydia Ko and Mo Martin have all won majors in recent years and they are all shorter than that. There’s no bombers mentality on lpga as of yet anyway.

But I agree pro life is tough. This time last year Leona sailed through this stage of q school but she knew she was going back to college so there was no pressure. That changed when she graduated and suddenly this is her life, her living and the support structure behind her is taken away. There’s an adjustment process and think that’s maybe what she’s going through these past few months.

GreeBo

Thread title needs a change.

Beaulieu

galljga1 wrote: »

Thread needs a name change.

Completely agree! I've looked but can't see how I can do it (given that I started the thread in the first place:))

paulos53

European Tour Pre-Qualifier for Leona & Lisa this week. A relatively small field of 70 players with top 38 and ties going through to the final stage next week.


Leona is -2 and T11 after Round 1
Lisa is +2 and T39

paulos53

After 3 rounds:


Leona is in second place on -12. The leader is -19
Lisa is T39 on +4

diegocosta99

Leona is featured in an article on the qualifying series on the ladies European Tour website.

paulos53

Leona is T5 on -6 after 36 holes of the 5 round Q-School event.

The top 25 earn European Tour cards but the top 5 get a much better exemption category. The leaders are on -8 and -1 is good enough for tied 25th