{"id":330483,"date":"2025-12-06T00:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T00:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/330483\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T00:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T00:47:09","slug":"full-leaderboard-live-scores-tee-times-players-to-watch-rory-mcilroy-adam-scott-cameron-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/330483\/","title":{"rendered":"Full leaderboard, live scores, tee times, players to watch; Rory McIlroy; Adam Scott; Cameron Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rory McIlroy grabbed three birdies in his last four holes to make the cut at the Australian Open on Friday, while Portugal\u2019s Daniel Rodrigues and Denmark\u2019s Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen set the pace at Royal Melbourne on nine-under par.<\/p>\n<p>A trio of home golfers are in hot pursuit of the joint leaders with Min Woo Lee shooting a six-under 65 to sit one shot back while major winners Cam Smith (65) and Adam Scott (66) were a stroke further back.<\/p>\n<p>Smith, the 2022 British Open champion, posted six birdies without a blemish on his second-round card.<\/p>\n<p>Portugal\u2019s Rodrigues shot a seven-under 64, soaring up the leaderboard with a bogey and eight birdies on his card, while an eagle at the 14th helped Dane Neergaard-Petersen to a 66.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Denmark\u2019s Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/30a5e24c227a77a7f355959f88ed35101670c78b.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Denmark\u2019s Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCertainly I feel like I\u2019ve proved over the last year or so that I have the level to compete out here and be in the thick of things on Sunday,\u201d Neergaard-Petersen said.<\/p>\n<p>McIlroy found himself outside the cut line after taking a fresh air swing in the bushes on the 14th and suffering a bogey, but the Northern Irishman hit back with birdies on 15, 17 and 18 to card a 68 and sit seven strokes off the leaders on two under.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really making you think out there,\u201d said McIlroy, who completed the career Grand Slam with his win at the Masters this year.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy grabbed three birdies in his last four holes to make the cut at the Australian Open&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-330483","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}