'Rest, recover, reset' - Maguire primed for fast start in 2025

Leona Maguire is enjoying a well-earned break ahead of the start of the upcoming LPGA Tour season, and the Cavan native is hoping to hit the ground running in 2025.

Having played a very busy Tour schedule throughout the past 12 months, combined with representing Ireland at the Olympic Games and Europe in the Solheim Cup, Maguire feels that the six-week lay off will serve her well ahead of her opening event in Florida at the end of January.

Maguire enjoyed a victory on the Ladies European Tour (LET) during the summer and finished runner up to world number one Nelly Korda at the Match Play in Las Vegas, while she also feels that there was an element of consistency to her game throughout the 2024 campaign.

Yet there were disappointments too, as Maguire felt that she did not bring her A game to the big events, in particular the major tournaments, and that was reflected in the world rankings as she dropped from 25th at the start of the year to her current position of 50th.

The highlight was probably that win in London, that was a goal at the start of the year to try to get a LET win under my belt, first Irish win on the LET so definitely a highlight," said Maguire, speaking to the media on Monday.

"And nearly won in Vegas at the start of the year, ran into Nelly, could have been better…Would have liked to have played better in the majors; didn't quite play as well as I would have liked.

"It was an up and down year, still fairly consistent, made a lot of cuts and made it to the Tour Championship. Didn’t quite have my A game as much as I would have liked but I felt Iike I managed a lot of events, and squeezed some good golf in there as well.

"So it’s nice to have a bit of an off season now to fine tune a few things and get ready for