{"id":310068,"date":"2026-02-21T16:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/310068\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T16:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T16:00:11","slug":"mcilroy-hunting-leaders-at-genesis-invitational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/310068\/","title":{"rendered":"McIlroy hunting leaders at Genesis Invitational"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rory McIlroy carded 65 on Friday to sit one shot behind England&#8217;s Marco Penge and Jacob Bridgeman of the US at the Genesis Invitational in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>The County Down man picked up three shots either side of the turn, including an eagle on the par-five 11th hole, en route to a total score of 11-under par headed into the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Shane Lowry improved considerably on an average opening day as he shot a 68 to move into a tie for 33rd.<\/p>\n<p>The Offaly man made the perfect start with an eagle on the first, and was on course to go really low until his one and only bogey on the par-five 17th when his putter let him down.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, leaders Penge and Bridgeman both shot seven-under in the second round to hold on to a narrow lead.<\/p>\n<p>Australian veteran Adam Scott had the best performance of the day, picking up two eagles and five birdies to head to the clubhouse on eight under, with a bogey on the final hole being the sole blemish.<\/p>\n<p>Scott sits equal-fourth on nine-under par for the tournament, with the English duo of Matt Fitzpatrick and Tommy Fleetwood two shots further back.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/results\/golf\/pga-tour-1\/28348\/the-genesis-invitational-908465\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FULL LEADERBOARD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, world number one Scottie Scheffler did just enough to make the cut, his second-round score of 69 enough to finish even par through the first two rounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy carded 65 on Friday to sit one shot behind England&#8217;s Marco Penge and Jacob Bridgeman of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-310068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310068","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=310068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}