'I’m still from Cavan, I still have that mentality at heart… I’ve never been interested in having a big flashy Lamborghini or anything like that.'
A FIRST WIN on the LPGA Tour. Nine top-10 finishes from 26 tournaments in eight different countries . A highest ever world ranking of 11th. Ninth in the LGPA earnings list with paychecks totalling €1.7 million, almost double her rookie and sophomore years on the tour combined.
“Hopefully this weather is a little bit nicer to us over the next couple of weeks,” Maguire laughs, stressing that she “won’t down tools completely” while back in Ballyconnell for her longest breather of the year. “You kind of want to stay ready as opposed to having to get ready,” she explains. After its resuscitation from a 10-year hiatus at Dromoland Castle in 2022, the tournament will return to the Co. Clare course three weeks earlier in next year’s schedule, between 31 August and 3 September — a week before the men’s equivalent at the K Club.
I got to go to a lot of Irish Opens as a kid to watch some of the best players in the world. It’s one thing watching sport on telly, but actually being there and getting to experience the atmosphere and everything that goes with it is on a different level. And then it’s an added bonus if you get to meet your heroes or whatever it is, so I think it’s huge that the Irish Open is back on the schedule and hopefully it’s there for a long time.
Her own name carries that sort of weight in Ireland now. In only a handful of years, Maguire has become a part of the mainstream sporting conversation in her home country; someone whose progress the casual Irish sports fan will also Google-search on a given weekend while checking how her male compatriots are faring at PGA, DP World Tour, and Tour Champion events.
“I think we’re fortunate to be in a time where there is this momentum with women’s sport in Ireland — and around the world. And it’s been fantastic to see so many of the girls doing so well this year, not just myself, so I think we’ve all kind of rode the momentum of that.”Reports From Qatar Get Gavin's exclusive writing and analysis from the 2022 Fifa World CupEqually a cause and consequence of this momentum has been an increase in financial investment in women’s sport globally.
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