{"id":57027,"date":"2025-08-09T14:00:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T14:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/57027\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T14:00:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T14:00:06","slug":"st-jude-championship-tommy-fleetwood-opens-up-lead-before-bad-weather-stops-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/57027\/","title":{"rendered":"St Jude Championship: Tommy Fleetwood opens up lead before bad weather stops play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fleetwood has finished runner-up six times at PGA Tour events, with the last of those when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/golf\/articles\/cdx59pq4wwyo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he missed out on the Travelers Championship<\/a> in June by a single shot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It hasn&#8217;t happened for me yet out on the PGA Tour but I would much rather be up there and not quite get it done than not there at all,&#8221; said Fleetwood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Who knows, maybe this weekend is the weekend and we&#8217;ll see, and we&#8217;ll crack on from there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m happy to put myself in with a chance over the weekend. I think that&#8217;s exactly where you want to be and keep testing yourself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">World number one Scottie Scheffler is in the clubhouse at seven under after firing 66.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Englishman Harry Hall&#8217;s round of 72 left him on four under &#8211; a stroke ahead of Scotland&#8217;s Robert MacIntyre, while 2022 US Open winner Matt Fitzpatrick is at two under after a disappointing 71, which contained five bogeys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The second round will resume on Saturday at 13:30 BST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fleetwood has finished runner-up six times at PGA Tour events, with the last of those when he missed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-57027","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57027","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=57027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}