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Solid day for the Irish as Maguire and Meadow make the cut ahead of big weekend in Georgia

Meadow carded a round of 70 to climb the leaderboard at the LPGA Drive On Championship, while Maguire enjoyed a strong showing on the back nine.

IRISH DUO LEONA Maguire and Stephanie Meadow each enjoyed solid second rounds to ensure they made the cut ahead of a big weekend at the LPGA Drive On Championship in Georgia.

Both Maguire and Meadow carded opening round 74s at Reynolds Lake Oconee, and so, began day two on two-over-par.

Cavan star Maguire capped a mixed day with four birdies on the last eight holes. Her level-par 72 included a five-birdy total, which balanced out her three bogeys and a double bogey on the fifth hole.

“Never give up,” as she tweeted afterwards, now tied for 63rd on the leaderboard.

Jordanstown native Meadow, meanwhile, jumped up the leaderboard after carding a second round of 70. Birdies on the second, sixth, eighth and 10th had her in good stead, and cancelled out bogeys on the fifth and ninth. 

And a steady showing on the back nine brought her to level par overall.

Ally McDonald of the US has the outright lead after opening rounds of 66 and 68. 10-under currently, she’s one shot ahead of fellow American Danielle Kane and Bianca Pagdanganan of the Philippines.

You can view the leaderboard here.

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    Aug 17th 2015, 3:09 PM

    Farm strength.

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    Aug 17th 2015, 4:49 PM

    One word: Animal

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    Aug 17th 2015, 3:14 PM

    A Combine Harvester.

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    Aug 17th 2015, 3:29 PM

    The way he places the ball at the ref’s feet in that first gif is hilarious. He was unbelievable at the breakdown on Saturday. An absolute tank.

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    Aug 17th 2015, 4:56 PM

    Makes Zebos MOTM award laughable

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    Aug 17th 2015, 5:09 PM

    at the same time sob didn’t do a whole lot else

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    Aug 17th 2015, 7:11 PM

    Zebo didn’t have 4 big positives like this, did he? SOB no pistaches, either.

    I was myself happy both played well (we need an alternative to Kearney) but SOB was clearly better.

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    Aug 17th 2015, 8:04 PM

    *mistakes* (french auto correct!)

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    Aug 17th 2015, 4:34 PM

    Against Scotland. That’s nothing to boast about

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    Aug 17th 2015, 5:53 PM

    You’ve done pretty well at the breakdown yourself, have you Mike?

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    Aug 17th 2015, 7:36 PM

    As good as you I’d say

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    Aug 18th 2015, 4:56 PM

    I reckon that a back row of O Mahony, Henry and O Brien is our best scavenging back row.
    I would love to see it against a team like Australia who could play Pocock and Hooper.

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    Aug 18th 2015, 6:34 PM

    The choice of Henry over heaslip just baffles me.

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