Leona Maguire bidding to climb leaderboard at Woburn

Leona Maguire made the cut comfortably for the weekend at the Ricoh British women’s Open Championship at Woburn yesterday.

The 21-year-old Curtis Cup star from Slieve Russell in County Cavan fired an excellent two under par 70 to add to her 71 of the previous day for a 36-hole total of 141.

Three birdies on the bounce from the 4th set her up well. She dropped strokes at 8 and 12 but collected a birdie two on the 17th. She is comfortably in the top 30 looking to push up the leaderboard this weekend.