{"id":909527,"date":"2026-09-25T20:46:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T20:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/909527\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T20:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T20:46:15","slug":"ryan-gerard-in-contention-at-french-open-as-matt-fitzpatrick-leads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/909527\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Gerard in contention at French Open as Matt Fitzpatrick leads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">PARIS (AP) \u2014 Ryan Gerard might have been representing the United States in the Presidents Cup this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Instead, he\u2019s in contention at a big European tour event for the second week running after shooting a 6-under 65 on Friday to be three shots off the lead at the halfway point of the French Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Matt Fitzpatrick, the world No. 4, shot 64 and held the second-round lead on 13-under 129 at Le Golf National outside Paris, where the Ryder Cup was staged in 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jeff Winther was a shot back after also shooting 64, while defending champion Michael Kim of the United States \u2014 the first-round leader \u2014 bogeyed the last hole for a 68 that dropped him into third place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Then, in a share of fourth place, was the No. 23-ranked Gerard, who wasn\u2019t picked by U.S. captain Brandt Snedeker in his 12-man roster for the Presidents Cup taking place at Medinah despite a third-place finish at the Tour Championship last month. That came after he contended briefly at the British Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Even last week, Gerard led by two shots after 36 holes at the BMW PGA Championship \u2014 the European tour\u2019s flagship event \u2014 before finishing tied for 27th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"> See AP\u2019s full golf coverage here <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS (AP) \u2014 Ryan Gerard might have been representing the United States in the Presidents Cup this week.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":909528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-909527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909527","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=909527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/909528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}