{"id":718429,"date":"2026-06-06T06:11:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T06:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/718429\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T06:11:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T06:11:37","slug":"pereira-retains-lead-at-mexico-championship-after-second-round-suspended-due-to-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/718429\/","title":{"rendered":"Pereira retains lead at Mexico Championship after second round suspended due to weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Opening-round co-leader Corey Pereira (Sacramento, California) holds a one-shot lead, with the second round suspended due to lightning at the Mexico Championship presented by Scotia Wealth Management. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">At 10-under through 12 holes, Pereira sits just ahead of clubhouse leader and current PGA TOUR Americas points list No. 1 Patrick Flavin (Highwood, Illinois) and Drew Doyle(Louisville, Kentucky). Flavin fired a second-round-best 8-under 63 earlier in the day to move to 9-under 133, while Doyle has three holes remaining to play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Bogey-free through 36 holes, Omar Morales (Puebla, Mexico) is tied for fourth at 8-under 134. The former UCLA Bruin, No. 9 in last year\u2019s PGA TOUR University ranking, followed an opening-round 68 with a 66 to lead the nine Mexican players in the field at Club de Golf La Hacienda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The second round was suspended due to lightning at 5:55 p.m. local time, and play was called for the day half an hour later. With 53 players yet to complete the round, play will resume Saturday at 7:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Following the cut (low 60 and ties), third-round tee times will begin at approximately 9:45 a.m. off the Nos. 1 and 10 tees in threesomes. The final tee time is scheduled for approximately 11:45 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opening-round co-leader Corey Pereira (Sacramento, California) holds a one-shot lead, with the second round suspended due to lightning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":718430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[712,49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-718429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718429","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=718429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}