{"id":872348,"date":"2026-08-29T06:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T06:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/872348\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T06:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T06:18:09","slug":"pga-tour-championship-ryan-fox-stays-in-contention-at-east-lake-golf-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/872348\/","title":{"rendered":"PGA Tour Championship: Ryan Fox stays in contention at East Lake Golf Club"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a four-under opening round, the 39-year-old Kiwi carded a two-under 68 in his second round to be tied for 11th. While he dropped a couple of spots on the leaderboard, he remained in the hunt, four shots off the lead held by American Ryan Gerard and Norwegian Viktor Hovland. <\/p>\n

For the second round in a row, Fox opened with a bogey, but added three birdies through the rest of the front nine to sit two-under at the turn. He added two bogeys and two birdies on the back nine to finish the round at two-under, including a birdie on the par-five<\/p>\n

In such a small field, a good or a bad round can go a long way in changing positions. American Cameron Young jumped 22 spots on the leaderboard after an eight-under second round, while first-round leader Min Woo Lee fell 14 spots with a three-over second round. <\/p>\n

Through two rounds, every player is under par aside from Scotland\u2019s Robert MacIntyre, who struggled to a six-over 76 in his second round. <\/p>\n

Fox will play alongside American Akshay Bhatia for his third round, which gets underway at 5.37am NZT on Sunday. <\/p>\n

Christopher Reive<\/a> joined the Herald sports team in 2017, bringing the same versatility to his coverage as he does to his sports viewing habits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a four-under opening round, the 39-year-old Kiwi carded a two-under 68 in his second round to be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[1929,64,63,9663,10970,177006,171945,3016,287274,1953,755,60298,1899,4717,6459,39497,32604,15139,85,12938,440745,245,36434,32388],"class_list":["post-872348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-at","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-championship","tag-club","tag-contention","tag-disadvantage","tag-east","tag-entering","tag-fox","tag-golf","tag-gone","tag-have","tag-in","tag-lake","tag-pga","tag-ranked","tag-ryan","tag-sports","tag-standings","tag-stays","tag-tour","tag-would","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872348","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=872348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}