{"id":734277,"date":"2026-06-13T15:39:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T15:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/734277\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T15:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T15:39:13","slug":"lowry-four-strokes-adrift-at-midway-point-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/734277\/","title":{"rendered":"Lowry four strokes adrift at midway point in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shane Lowry is just inside the top-20 after carding a one-under-par 69 in his second round at the RBC Canadian Open in Toronto.<\/p>\n

After carding a blemish-free 65 in his opening round, Lowry made more unsteady progress on Friday.<\/p>\n

Starting on the 10th, Lowry began with seven successive pars and then fell back to three under with back-to-back bogeys on 17 and 18, the former following a three-putt and the latter a consequence of a wayward drive into the trees at the par-5.<\/p>\n

Lowry gained back the lost ground in one swoop, pitching in for eagle at the par-5 first hole (his 10th).<\/p>\n

There was further frustration on the greens, however, as a birdie opportunity lipped out on the sixth before he finally recorded his first and only birdie of the day at his penultimate, draining a 13-footer to reach the midway point at six under.<\/p>\n

FULL LEADERBOARD<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s been a memorable week for Ben James, who holds the outright lead on 10 under after a stunning round of 63.<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old, making his first start as a PGA Tour member, opened with an eagle and carded five further birdies en-route to a round of 63.<\/p>\n

James is one stroke clear of a quintet of players in second spot, US Ryder Cup player Sam Burns, Li Hoatong, Keith Mitchell, Jackson Suber and Sweden’s Jesper Svensson.<\/p>\n

Five-time major champion Brooks Koepka is two strokes off the lead on eight under after a colourful front nine.<\/p>\n

Starting on 10, Koepka, who returns to the site of his last US Open triumph at Shinnecock Hills next week, posted an outward nine of 32, which included an eagle, a double-bogey, four birdies and a bogey. This gave way to a more sedate and underwhelming inward nine, with a dropped stroke at second and eight pars.<\/p>\n

England’s Tommy Fleetwood is also part of the group on eight under, recording seven birdies with just two dropped strokes in his second round.<\/p>\n

Lowry is part of a large grouping on six under which also includes his Ryder Cup team-mate Bob MacIntyre and Sahith Theegala.<\/p>\n

S\u00e9amus Power missed the cut despite a bogey-less second round of 68 which brought him back to one under par for the tournament – one stroke outside the projected mark.<\/p>\n

P\u00e1draig Harrington also missed the cut after he finished four shots further back on three over after a 70.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shane Lowry is just inside the top-20 after carding a one-under-par 69 in his second round at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-734277","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\/734277","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=734277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}