{"id":599012,"date":"2026-04-11T01:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T01:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/599012\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T01:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T01:07:07","slug":"the-masters-second-round-updates-as-mcilroy-cards-65-for-historic-halfway-lead-as-it-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/599012\/","title":{"rendered":"The Masters: Second round updates as McIlroy cards 65 for historic halfway lead &#8211; as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/>Friday was a historic day at Augusta National.\u00a0(Photo by Jared C. Tilton\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>The second day of the 90th edition of The Masters was one to remember as Rory McIlroy established a historic six-shot lead at the halfway stage.<\/p>\n<p>The Northern Irishman looks well on his way to becoming the first man since Tiger Woods to defend the Green Jacket.<\/p>\n<p>At the other end of the leaderboard, Bryson DeChambeau will be going home early after a nightmare triple bogey at the 18th saw him drop below the cut line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday was a historic day at Augusta National.\u00a0(Photo by Jared C. Tilton\/Getty Images) The second day of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-599012","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\/599012","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=599012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}