{"id":138538,"date":"2025-09-12T12:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T12:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/138538\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T12:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T12:07:08","slug":"ludvig-aberg-shares-the-lead-at-wentworth-rory-mcilroy-5-shots-back-in-opening-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/138538\/","title":{"rendered":"Ludvig Aberg shares the lead at Wentworth, Rory McIlroy 5 shots back in opening round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VIRGINIA WATER, England (AP) \u2014 Ludvig Aberg held a share of the lead and Rory McIlroy found the water on the final hole to finish five shots back on the opening day of the weather-affected BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Aberg, a Swede who is a captain\u2019s pick for <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ryder-cup-europe-picks-donald-f272e798e5c98a85fd9d4d56dd5b7e89\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:the European Ryder Cup team;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">the European Ryder Cup team<\/a> that heads to Bethpage Black later this month, shot 8-under 64 to join Tom Vaillant atop the leaderboard.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>McIlroy, who <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/rory-mcilroy-irish-open-eagle-0a2d5808a349f9710b11fff1c39191df\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:won the Irish Open;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">won the Irish Open<\/a> in a playoff victory over Joakim Lagergren on Sunday, made birdies on the first and fourth holes before a bogey on the par-3 fifth.<\/p>\n<p>The Northern Irishman added birdies on the 10th, 12th and 16th. But he hit his approach at the par-five 18th into the water, settling for a bogey and a first-round 69.<\/p>\n<p>Play was suspended because of darkness at 7:30 p.m., so Thursday&#8217;s late starters will have to complete their opening rounds Friday morning. A 90-minute weather delay had disrupted play in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Casey Jarvis was alone in third place, one shot off the lead.<\/p>\n<p>Ryder Cup training camp<\/p>\n<p>All but one player from Europe&#8217;s Ryder Cup team is at Wentworth. European captain Luke Donald said last week in Ireland that Sepp Straka is home with his wife, who recently gave birth prematurely.<\/p>\n<p>Aberg started his day with a bogey at the first hole, but then did not drop a shot, making four birdies on the front nine and two more at the 10th and 12th before ending his round with three birdies.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Matt Fitzpatrick (66), another of Donald&#8217;s picks, was two shots off the lead while Ryder Cup teammates Justin Rose and Shane Lowry were a further shot back.<\/p>\n<p>Former No. 1 Jon Rahm had three birdies from the 15th in his 71.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP golf: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/golf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/golf;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/golf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VIRGINIA WATER, England (AP) \u2014 Ludvig Aberg held a share of the lead and Rory McIlroy found the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[71168,49,48,588,62851,622,74893,33109,51218,1976,82,74892],"class_list":{"0":"post-138538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-bmw-pga-championship","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-european-ryder-cup-team","13":"tag-golf","14":"tag-joakim-lagergren","15":"tag-ludvig-aberg","16":"tag-luke-donald","17":"tag-rory-mcilroy","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-virginia-water"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}