One week, the Nevada desert; the next, the skyscrapers of New York.
The diversity of the LPGA Tour’s state-hopping from week to week is such that a travel guide would be a useful addition to any luggage, apart from the fact that people like Leona Maguire pretty much only have time, in truth, for journeying between hotel and golf course.
After a fine performance in last week’s Bank of Hope Matchplay Championship – where the 29-year-old Cavan golfer finished tied-third, beaten in the semi-final by Ayaka Furue – at Shadow Creek, Maguire goes chasing a second career LPGA Tour title at this week’s Mizuho Americas Open at Liberty National in New Jersey.
“I obviously would have liked to have won the whole thing but, I suppose, if you’d offered me a semi-final at the start o …

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