{"id":524225,"date":"2026-03-07T07:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T07:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/524225\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T07:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T07:45:09","slug":"arnold-palmer-invitational-daniel-berger-leads-by-five-as-rory-mcilroy-rallies-in-second-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/524225\/","title":{"rendered":"Arnold Palmer Invitational: Daniel Berger leads by five as Rory McIlroy rallies in second round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I played the last 10 holes really, really well,&#8221; said McIlroy, who birdied four of the first seven holes on the back nine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Overall I am really pleased. I played a very sort of controlled, patient round of golf, which you need to do around here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The most recent of Berger&#8217;s four PGA Tour titles came in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">American world number one Scottie Scheffler bogeyed the 18th in a round of 71 that left him three under.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England&#8217;s Tommy Fleetwood, who was four over after the first round, shot three birdies on the back nine in a second-round 69 to make the cut on one over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;I played the last 10 holes really, really well,&#8221; said McIlroy, who birdied four of the first seven&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-524225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524225","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=524225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}