{"id":866640,"date":"2026-08-21T21:32:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T21:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/866640\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T21:32:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T21:32:16","slug":"canadas-richard-t-lee-leads-liv-golf-indianapolis-at-halfway-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/866640\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Richard T. Lee leads LIV Golf Indianapolis at halfway mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard T. Lee might be saving his best for last.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian has the lead at the halfway mark of LIV Golf Indianapolis, the season-ending event for the professional league.<\/p>\n<p>The Toronto native, who has played the Asian Tour for much of his career before earning a LIV card prior to this year, is 11 under through two rounds.<\/p>\n<p>He is one stroke ahead of Belgium&#8217;s Thomas Detry, Dustin Johnson of the U.S., and Laurie Canter of England.<\/p>\n<p>Lee, 35, is 19th in the season standings.<\/p>\n<p>The top 34 keep their cards, though the future of LIV seems uncertain league with the league no longer getting funding from Saudi Arabia&#8217;s sovereign wealth fund as of next year.<\/p>\n<p>Lee tied for 36th at last year&#8217;s RBC Canadian Open, his best career result on the PGA Tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richard T. Lee might be saving his best for last. The Canadian has the lead at the halfway&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-866640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866640","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=866640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}