Leona Maguire suffers back-to-back cuts
Leona Maguire's underwhelming 2025 season continued as she made it back-to-back missed cuts with a second-round 75 at the Riviera Maya Open in Mexico.
The Cavan golfer has one top 10 finish and one top 20 finish in 10 events this season, but had made the cut in every tournament until the Mizuho Americas Open earlier this month.
A 75 in Round 2 cost her then, and she carded successive 75s at El Camaleon Golf Course to ensure she wouldn't be around for the weekend following a six-over total.
Starting at the 10th, Maguire birdied her second hole to move to two-over, but she would drop five further shots with her only other birdie coming on the par-five 18th.
Jenny Bae shot her second straight round of 69 to eke in front of the pack.
Bae birdied the 18th hole to reach six-under, finishing the day one stroke better than Brianna Do and China's Miranda Wang, who had the round of the day with a seven-under 65.
Bae is ranked No. 222 in the world, Wang is No. 225 and Do is primed to leap up from the No. 840 position.
Bae, 23, hails from Georgia and has yet to win on the LPGA Tour. She collected her three professional wins on the Epson Tour.
"When I go home, I usually try to do the same routine, you know, go see my coach and try to improve on the little things since I don't have that much time to do something drastic," Bae said. "So just try to get my confidence back up back home and come out here with a positive and clear mind."
Her clear mind showed Friday as she pulled out five birdies to counteract two bogeys despite missing seven greens in regulation.
Wang, an LPGA rookie, matched her career-low score by making seven birdies without a bogey. She was one of only two players to go bogey-free on Friday, joined by Scotland's Gemma Dryburgh.
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