Leona Maguire wonders if golf calendar might be modified for 2028

Leona Maguire says it has been an “up and down” 12 months for the Cavan golfer as she displays on her 2024.

As 2025 approaches, Maguire is taking a while for herself in what was a busy 2024.

Maguire made historical past by turning into the primary Irish golfer to win a European Tour occasion, but it surely wasn’t to compete within the majors or the Olympics.

“It has been an up and down 12 months general. The spotlight was in all probability that win in London, it was a objective firstly of the 12 months to try to get a LET win underneath my belt.

“I’d have appreciated to play higher within the majors this 12 months, however I did not play in addition to I’d have appreciated. It was an up and down 12 months, however nonetheless fairly constant.

“I made loads of cuts, I nonetheless made the Tour Championship. I did not have my A-game as typically as I’d have appreciated this 12 months, however I felt like I used to be having managed loads of occasions and generally having performed good golf there.

Apart from the majors, the 30-year-old additionally needed to handle the Olympics and the Solheim Cup, a event that Maguire attracted the eye of {the golfing} world in earlier years.

Nonetheless, this time it was not the case for Europe as the US received their event on residence soil.

“It was a tricky process for us, on American soil, in opposition to one of many strongest groups America has had in a very long time.

“Making it 4 in a row we knew it wasn’t going to be a simple process, it had by no means been achieved earlier than for a cause. On the similar time it was an thrilling Sunday, it could have been a hell of a recreation .come again if we succeed.

“This makes ready for the Netherlands in two years much more dramatic and makes you wish to take part once more within the subsequent one.”

From 5 main tournaments to the Solheim Cup to the Olympics, it was a 12 months of nice moments for girls’s golf.

Sadly for Maguire, the sickness got here at a nasty time for the Cavan in France, as she says she would have appreciated so as to add to Eire’s medal tally.

“It has been a really busy summer time. We have had 4 main tournaments, an Olympics and a Solheim Cup in two months. You watch the Irish staff carry out so effectively and there was such a buzz round it, you wish to make it half, you wish to add to the medals and success.

“It wasn’t speculated to be for me in Paris, it is golf, it is sport. It could actually’t all the time occur like that. I did not have my A match, I did not actually have my B match that week.

“There have been so many Irish individuals there, in all probability one of many largest crowds I’ve ever seen.”

With so many occasions taking place in such a short while, it may be troublesome to plan for the 12 months on the course. 2028 will face the same drawback, with main tournaments, the Solheim Cup and the Olympics prone to happen in a brief time period.

Though it might take 4 years, Maguire doubts the timetable might be modified.

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“I feel it is troublesome. We play so many occasions all 12 months spherical, we’re totally different from different sports activities which have world championships and Olympics and adapt to every thing round them.

“I don’t know if there’s a greater method to do that. There are individuals a lot greater up the meals chain than me making these choices.

“I do not know what they are going to do for Los Angeles, they’re speaking a few combined occasion that could possibly be added, which might make it an extended occasion.

“There might be loads of golf to play between at times.”