{"id":309587,"date":"2026-02-21T09:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T09:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/309587\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T09:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T09:30:07","slug":"genesis-invitational-rory-mcilroy-hunts-leaders-marco-penge-jacob-bridgeman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/309587\/","title":{"rendered":"Genesis Invitational: Rory McIlroy hunts leaders Marco Penge &#038; Jacob Bridgeman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rory McIlroy sits one shot behind leaders Marco Penge and Jacob Bridgeman at the halfway stage of the Genesis Invitational.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England&#8217;s Penge hit five birdies in his final seven holes to post an eight-under-par 64 and move to 12 under overall after two rounds in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Penge&#8217;s 27-hole Friday was all the more remarkable, as he had to complete his nine holes from a weather-delayed round one before moving on to his second round. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Northern Ireland&#8217;s McIlroy carded a seven-under-par 65 to move to 11 under and having struggled to finish joint 14th at Pebble Beach last week, said the course at the Riviera Country Club was more forgiving. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There&#8217;s no Pacific Ocean to hit it into around this golf course, so that helps,&#8221; said world number two McIlroy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I still hit some loose shots, but the course set-up is in a way that you can get away with it a little bit more. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But I&#8217;ve hit it well, I&#8217;ve controlled my distance well for the most part, and I&#8217;ve holed some nice putts from inside eight feet for pars when I&#8217;ve needed to.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy sits one shot behind leaders Marco Penge and Jacob Bridgeman at the halfway stage of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-309587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}