Full leaderboard<\/a><\/p>\nOvernight leader Rory McIlroy said he would be heading to the driving range after falling away from the lead at the BMW Championship in St Louis.<\/p>\n
The Masters champion began with a fine six-under-par in the opening round, but followed that with a one under-par 69 on Friday.<\/p>\n
It means he is five shots behind Wyndham Clark, with whom he shared the lead after the first round.<\/p>\n
Clark had a flawless round to finish on 12 under and leads the contest by one stroke over Gary Woodland. <\/p>\n
The 32-year-old is the only player in the competition without a bogey in the first two rounds.<\/p>\n
“I feel like conditions were pretty similar to yesterday,” McIlroy told the Golf Channel after his round.<\/p>\n
“The wind was coming out of a different direction, but still very scorable. The greens are soft, maybe the ball’s got a little bit more run out on the fairways, but you’ll still see guys shooting pretty good scores today.<\/p>\n
“I didn’t quite hit it as good as I did yesterday, so probably an afternoon on the range for me.<\/p>\n
“I’m proud of how I just hung in there. A lot of good par putts on the back nine, especially. The only bogey I had was with a mistake on the par-five eighth hole, but I made some really good par saves coming in and that sort of kept me in it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BMW Championship – second round leaderboard -12 W Clark (US), -11 G Woodland (US), -10 JJ Spaun (US),…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-600696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600696","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=600696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}