{"id":520573,"date":"2026-03-07T14:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T14:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/520573\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T14:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T14:37:08","slug":"arnold-palmer-invitational-daniel-berger-leads-by-five-as-rory-mcilroy-rallies-in-second-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/520573\/","title":{"rendered":"Arnold Palmer Invitational: Daniel Berger leads by five as Rory McIlroy rallies in second round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Berger, who has not won on the PGA Tour since 2021, put himself on course for the \u00a33m top prize thanks to a clean run on the back nine which included three birdies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I actually feel like I played better [today] &#8211; the course was a little tougher,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m looking forward to the next couple of days and seeing the challenge they bring.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Americans Sahith Theegala and Collin Morikawa and Sweden&#8217;s Ludvig Aberg are tied for third on seven under, with American Ricky Fowler one shot further back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McIlroy, who birdied four of the first seven holes on the back nine, said: &#8220;I played the last 10 holes really, really well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Overall I am really pleased. I played a very sort of controlled, patient round of golf, which you need to do around here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">American world number one Scottie Scheffler bogeyed the 18th in a round of 71 that left him three under.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England&#8217;s Tommy Fleetwood, who was four over after the first round, shot three birdies on the back nine in a second-round 69 to make the cut on one over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Berger, who has not won on the PGA Tour since 2021, put himself on course for the \u00a33m&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-520573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520573","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=520573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}