Irish golfer Leona Maguire has averted catastrophe after finding her golf clubs that were lost while travelling to this week’s Evian Championship at Évians-les-Bains in France.
Flying from Dublin airport to Geneva for one of the five Majors on the LPGA Tour, Maguire appealed for help on social media on Monday when her clubs did not arrive with her in Geneva.
“Really need help from someone @DublinAirport or DAA,” said the Cavan golfer on Twitter. “Flew from Dublin to Geneva yesterday direct and somehow my golf bag has gone missing between checkin and takeoff. @FlySWISS & @swissportNews have no idea where it is. Need it urgently for @EvianChamp major this week.”
In a later tweet - now deleted - in response to a concerned fan who tried to contact Ping, Maguire’s club supplier, she revealed that she would not be able to locate a replacement set of clubs in time for the tournament which gets underway on Thursday.
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“Have already asked and been told they can’t be sent in time,” said Maguire. “This isn’t the men’s tour where there’s club tour vans on-site every week unfortunately.”
However, there seems to have been a happy ending with Maguire subsequently tweeting that her bag had been found.
Countless passengers have lost luggage while travelling through Dublin airport this summer, but the Dublin Airport Authority has previously said that baggage handling is the responsibility of individual airlines.
