{"id":662935,"date":"2026-10-23T08:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T08:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/662935\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T08:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T08:20:10","slug":"power-inside-top-20-after-decent-opening-in-bermuda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/662935\/","title":{"rendered":"Power inside top-20 after decent opening in Bermuda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seamus Power sits just inside the top-20 in Bermuda despite a frustrating finish to his opening round at Port Royal GC.<\/p>\n<p>The Waterford golfer has happy memories of the event, having triumphed at the Robert Trent designed layout four years ago, his second and last PGA Tour victory.<\/p>\n<p>He got off to a terrific start on Thursday, with four birdies in his outward nine to reach the turn in 32 strokes.<\/p>\n<p>Power added three further birdies between the 10th and 14th holes to reach seven under par.<\/p>\n<p>However, he went into reverse over the closing stretch, with loose tee shots costing him dropped shots on the 15th and 16th holes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/results\/golf\/pga-tour-1\/28348\/bermuda-championship-920209\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FULL LEADERBOARD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At five under par, Power trails the leader Chandler Blanchet by four strokes.<\/p>\n<p>Blanchet, who has yet to win on the PGA Tour, recorded two eagles and six birdies en route to a nine under par 62.<\/p>\n<p>He leads by one stroke from a quartet of players on eight under, which includes Corey Conners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seamus Power sits just inside the top-20 in Bermuda despite a frustrating finish to his opening round at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-662935","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\/662935","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=662935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}