IRELAND’S female golfing duo has left the Olympic stage on a sour note, having sunk further down the Olympic leaderboard and missed the cut following a disappointing second round at Le Golf National in Paris.
Stephane Meadows and Leona Maguire both entered today’s second round tied in 50th place following a poor first-round showing from the Irish pair.
The two started off with a bogey and ended the front nine holes level on par, however, four bogeys sandwiched between two birdies was Meadows’s downfall and a double and quadruple bogey plummeted Mauire to 59th.
After their performances, this means that there will be no Irish involvement in the latter two rounds of the women’s individual stroke play and Ireland’s Olympic golfing journey is over.
Maguire and Meadows will join flag bearer Shane Lowry and Rory McIlroy on the Irish cart out as McIlroy finished fifth in the men’s event having been one shot off the lead at one stage, while Lowry made the cut but never troubled the medal spots at any stage.
Meanwhile, tomorrow in Paris, Alice Sharpe and Lara Gillespie will take part in the women’s Madison track cycling final at the National Velodrome.
This event is, in effect, a track cycling relay where teams of two attempt to complete the most laps ahead of their opponents with only one rider allowed on the track at a time.