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Maguire makes history with 18th-hole eagle at Aramco Team Series
Leona Maguire produced a brilliant eagle on the 18th hole to win the Aramco Team Series individual event in London.
The Cavan golfer becomes the first Irish player to claim a victory on the Ladies European Tour.
Maguire had been in front throughout the tournament but endured a difficult final round before the 29-year-old made an impressive second shot at the closing par-five 18th.
Maguire trailed Spain’s Maria Hernandez who posted a seven-under par score by a shot going down the last but it was the Irish player who made an impressive ending on the fairway before sinking her putt.
It’s Maguire’s fifth win as a professional after previously winning twice on the LPGA Tour and the Symetra Tour.
“I did it the hard way, I felt like it was tough out there, I didn’t play my best golf and my caddie Dermot (Byrne) just kept saying, ‘be patient, be patient’. And he said right before I hit (the shot to the 18th), ‘Let’s hit the shot of the year here’ and yeah, it was just a perfect number and my trusty hybrids came in useful once again,” Maguire told Sky Sports.
“I just hung in there even when things weren’t going right and I couldn’t have asked for a better start.
“I was trying to hit a good putt, I knew no Irish girl had won. That putt was for me, for my family and for Ireland.”
America’s Alison Lee was undone by a bogey on the last and was unable to capitalise on Maguire’s poor final round.
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Maguire started the day on eight-under par but looked in trouble after she dropped two shots out of bounds on the sixth. In her post-match interview, Maguire said she that 10-under was initially the score she had in mind.
She converted for eagle, a level par 73 to claim her fifth win as a professional by one shot from Hernandez and by two from Walsh, Lee and Hall on eight-under.
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