{"id":592247,"date":"2026-08-22T04:48:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T04:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/592247\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T04:48:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T04:48:06","slug":"wyndham-clark-leads-bmw-championship-with-bogey-free-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/592247\/","title":{"rendered":"Wyndham Clark leads BMW Championship with bogey-free round"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES – Wyndham Clark moved into the solo lead with another bogey-free six-under 64 at the BMW Championship<\/a> on Aug 21, with Rory McIlroy among the chasing pack at the second event of the PGA Tour\u2019s FedEx Cup playoffs.<\/p>\n

One of five overnight leaders, Clark edged clear of the field with a birdie on the 17th after narrowly missing a long uphill eagle putt at Bellerive Country Club in St Louis, Missouri.<\/p>\n

A comfortable par from a fairway bunker on the last completed the 32-year-old\u2019s first-ever bogey-free opening 36 holes at a PGA Tour event.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven though I missed some more fairways today, the misses were in good spots,\u201d said Clark.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like my putter still hasn\u2019t gotten hot yet, so it would be nice if it does on the weekend. But I played really good, solid golf.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clark did roll in a 21-foot putt on the 14th, having birdied the fourth, sixth, eighth and 10th holes with pinpoint approach play.<\/p>\n

The American, who won his second US Open title in June, hit the midway point at 12-under par, one stroke clear of former US Open winner Gary Woodland, who finished with back-to-back birdies after some wayward tee shots for a 65.<\/p>\n

\u201cI lost it a little bit on the back nine, lost some shots to the right, and I was able to adjust, kind of take a step back,\u201d said Woodland.<\/p>\n

\u201cI checked my grip and hit four really great shots coming in on No.s 17, 18, so proud of the adjustment I made there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another overnight co-leader, JJ Spaun, had earlier built a substantial advantage with four straight birdies on a blistering front nine.<\/p>\n

\u201cWasn\u2019t really thinking much. Was kind of in a nice flow mentally and technically with my game,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Three bogeys after the turn gave hope to the chasing pack, before Spaun finished with a birdie for a round of 66 and third place, two shots behind Clark.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was a nice way to end the day. Kind of hit a little rough patch on No.s 14, 15 with a poor three-putt and a poor second shot on No. 14. But that\u2019s golf, it happens.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always thought really tough courses fit my game… When fairways and greens in (regulation) are a premium, that\u2019s kind of where I do well, like a US Open,\u201d added Spaun, who won that major last year.<\/p>\n

\u2018Squirrely\u2019 McIlroy<\/p>\n

Chris Gotterup (67) was a further shot back alongside South Korean Im Sung-jae (64), followed by Michael Thorbjornsen (66) and Patrick Cantlay (65) on eight under.<\/p>\n

And fellow overnight co-leader McIlroy remained in the hunt, tied for eighth and five strokes back with a round of 69.<\/p>\n

The Northern Irishman is trying to rebuild his form after an alarming 66th-place finish last week at the St Jude Championship in Memphis.<\/p>\n

He survived a precarious approach shot on the second hole, struck while teetering on lakeside rocks, to save one of 15 pars.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday I hit some decent iron shots but was a little more squirrely off the tee,\u201d said the six-time Major winner.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, who marched to a dominant victory in Memphis last week, battled through a bout of sickness to bounce back from a disastrous opening round with an excellent 65.<\/p>\n

His second round featured five birdies on the back nine, to leave him three under for the tournament.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a ways back, but I\u2019m not out of it by any means,\u201d said Scheffler, who admitted he had been struggling with an unspecified illness.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wasn\u2019t feeling a hundred percent yesterday. I\u2019ll still not feeling a hundred percent today. So I\u2019ll go home, get some rest.\u201d AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES – Wyndham Clark moved into the solo lead with another bogey-free six-under 64 at the BMW…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-592247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}