All the scores from the BMW Championship<\/a><\/p>\nClark quickly regained the joint lead with Gary Woodland, his birdie putt just wobbling in on four, before a superb wedge from deep rough for birdie on seven.<\/p>\n
An eagle on eight from a pinpoint iron and 12-foot putt gave Clark a three-stroke cushion.<\/p>\n
And the American soared clear on the back nine, with birdies at 10 — thanks to a 30-foot putt — 11, 13 and 14.<\/p>\n
He saved par with a 15-foot putt on 16 but missed a simple five-foot birdie putt on 17 and then another par putt on the last to give the field hope.<\/p>\n
\u201cGot into a great groove and played amazing. I\u2019m just a little bummed right now at how I finished on 17, 18,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
With Woodland struggling, McIlroy surged into joint second. The Northern Irishman carded an entertaining 65, despite finding just four fairways all day.<\/p>\n
He had birdied the par-three third and escaped a wayward drive on eighth with a par after somehow bulldozing his second shot straight through both a tree and a bunker.<\/p>\n
– \u2018Aggressive\u2019 –<\/p>\n
Pushing the accelerator, the six-time Major champ\u2019s game sprang to life on the back nine, with five birdies — including a 26-foot putt on 16 — closing the gap to Clark.<\/p>\n
\u201cPlaying this golf course from the rough isn\u2019t fun. But I hung in there. My short game saved me a couple of times,\u201d said McIlroy.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m in a good spot going into tomorrow in terms of where I\u2019m at at the leaderboard. But it\u2019s going to take a heroic effort from one of us to catch Wyndham.\u201d He added: \u201cI think you can be aggressive here.\u201d<\/p>\n
– Scheffler stalls –<\/p>\n
McIlroy was joined in second by Patrick Cantlay, who birdied the 18th in a round of 66.<\/p>\n
Woodland and Chris Gotterup were a further stroke back, at 11-under, followed by Collin Morikawa.<\/p>\n
Woodland and Cantlay are both on the cusp of making the final field of 30 for the season-ending Tour Championship, taking place next week in Atlanta, Georgia.<\/p>\n
World number one Scottie Scheffler — who recovered Friday after briefly sitting rock bottom on an illness-affected opening day — made moves in the morning, reaching six-under par.<\/p>\n
But he handed two shots back with back-nine bogeys, becoming frustrated as any hopes of an improbable comeback vanished.<\/p>\n
Scheffler finished on five-under par after a 68.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wyndham Clark surged into a commanding five-stroke lead at the BMW Championship on Saturday, bouncing back from an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":865162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-865161","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\/865161","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=865161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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