The LPGA Tour’s newest multiple champion stayed hot. Just days after lifting the Meijer Classic for her second win stateside, Leona Maguire – sticking to her routine with the sort of discipline that has elevated her to 12th in the Rolex world rankings – hit every fairway and every green-in-regulation in opening with a superb two-under-par 69 in the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship at iconic Baltusrol Golf Club in New Jersey.
Maguire, bidding to become the first Irishwoman to win a Major, moved into a share of the clubhouse lead alongside Norway’s Celine Borge and Japan’s Ayaka Furue after another display of strategically working her way around the course and playing to her strengths of accuracy off the te …
- June 23, 2023
