Double Olympians Leona Maguire and Stephanie Meadow in a confident frame of mind

Maguire and Meadow will double up for Ireland in Tokyo this week, just as they did five years in Rio when the former finished in a tie for 21st and the latter ended up ten spots back

Leona Maguire chatting with Rory McIlroy at Kasumigaseki Country Club in Tokyo last weekend. Picture: James Crombie

Leona Maguire is hoping the pointers she has taken from Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry at the Kasumigaseki Country Club can help her do something special at the women’s Olympic tournament this week.

McIlroy just missed out on a bronze medal via a seven-man playoff on Sunday while a poor front nine on the fourth day cost Lowry the opportunity to stand on the podium, but both Maguire and Stephanie Meadow got to watch their male counterparts grapple with the course and the conditions.