LPGA Winner in Highlight After Absurd Tick Bites From Erin Hills

[ad_1] Whereas most gamers on the KPMG Ladies's PGA Championship are battling the Texas warmth, sluggish play, and a demanding Fields Ranch East format, Leona Maguire is coping with one thing way more weird—tick bites!

Practically three weeks in the past, the 2-time LPGA winner acquired bitten by ticks at Erin Hills in the course of the US Ladies's Open, that are nonetheless haunting her sport.

FRISCO, TEXAS - JUNE 18: Leona Maguire of Eire appears on previous to the KPMG Ladies's PGA Championship 2025 at Fields Ranch East at PGA Frisco on June 18, 2025 in Frisco, Texas. (Picture by... FRISCO, TEXAS - JUNE 18: Leona Maguire of Eire appears on previous to the KPMG Ladies's PGA Championship 2025 at Fields Ranch East at PGA Frisco on June 18, 2025 in Frisco, Texas. (Picture by Sam Hodde/Getty Pictures) Extra Getty Pictures One notably nasty blood blister on her proper hand, which she described as trying "like a pepperoni," continues to flare up as she grinds by the third main of the season.

At present, she sits tied for sixteenth at +2 after two rounds, having opened with an even-par 72 and adopted it with a 74 on Friday.

She trails chief Atthaya Thitikul by eight photographs, however was giving the Thai star a stable chase early on.

In line with Golfweek's Beth Ann Nichols, Maguire's twin sister, Lisa, dressed the wound twice throughout Thursday's opening spherical.

Leona Maguire suffered from tick bites at Erin Hills and now the meds she’s been on have wreaked havoc on her pores and skin. Sister Lisa needed to are likely to this blood blister twice throughout Spherical 1 of the KPMG. pic.twitter.com/SkAJRWyWLy

— Beth Ann Nichols (@GolfweekNichols) June 19, 2025 The problem is not new. Maguire wore pants final week on the Meijer LPGA Traditional to guard her legs, however could not convey herself to do it once more within the sweltering Texas warmth.

"It is made my pores and skin like tissue paper," she stated, referencing the unintended effects of doxycycline, an antibiotic she took to forestall Lyme illness after the bites.

The remedy has left her pores and skin hypersensitive and blister-prone, forcing her to put on solar sleeves, one thing she sometimes avoids.

If this was not sufficient, the warmth in Texas is making it worse.

Temperatures at Fields Ranch East in Frisco, Texas, have hovered within the mid-90s Fahrenheit (35°C), with excessive humidity and little breeze.

"It is sizzling. I am nonetheless cooling down proper now," stated Nelly Korda after her spherical. "Everybody within the group is sort of going by it. Simply must be prepared if you hit".

Nelly Korda of the US watches a tee shot on the sixth gap in the course of the first spherical of the KPMG Ladies's PGA Championship 2025 at Fields Ranch East at PGA Frisco on June 19,... Nelly Korda of the US watches a tee shot on the sixth gap in the course of the first spherical of the KPMG Ladies's PGA Championship 2025 at Fields Ranch East at PGA Frisco on June 19, 2025 in Frisco, Texas. Extra Sam Hodde/Getty Pictures For Maguire, the timing could not be worse. After 4 straight missed cuts, she's lastly discovered rhythm along with her driver and returned to her outdated putter.

However along with her pores and skin nonetheless uncooked and the Texas solar unrelenting, her resilience is being examined in additional methods than one.