{"id":247531,"date":"2025-11-06T15:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T15:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/247531\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T15:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T15:17:07","slug":"abu-dhabi-championship-tommy-fleetwood-and-shane-lowry-in-share-of-first-round-lead-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/247531\/","title":{"rendered":"Abu Dhabi Championship: Tommy Fleetwood and Shane Lowry in share of first-round lead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ryder Cup team-mates Tommy Fleetwood and Shane Lowry are in a share of the lead after the first round of the Abu Dhabi Championship.<\/p>\n

England’s Fleetwood and Irishman Lowry, who helped Europe beat the USA at Bethpage<\/a> in September, both carded an eight-under 64 at Yas Links.<\/p>\n

Adrien Saddier, Richard Sterne and Kazuma Kobori complete the five leaders after day one of the DP World Tour’s penultimate tournament of the year – with a field of 70 whittled down to 50 for next week’s DP World Tour Championship finale.<\/p>\n

Sterne made a flying start as the South African was seven under after the front nine, before landing a 75-foot putt on the 18th to claim his second eagle of the day and take the clubhouse lead.<\/p>\n

Two-time winner Fleetwood then finished with eight birdies in a spotless round while 2019 champion Lowry had nine birdies and a single bogey. <\/p>\n

Rasmus Hojgaard also played with the Ryder Cup duo and Lowry said: “I was pretty excited when I saw the group, my pairing today. It was nice to go out there with the boys.<\/p>\n

“I was paired with [Fleetwood] in India<\/a> the first two days and I shot 64 as well, so yeah, something about me and Tommy. I just like playing with him, a friend and a really good player too. You kind of feed off each other.”<\/p>\n

England’s Marco Penge has emerged as the closest challenger to leader Rory McIlroy in the Race to Dubai.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old played with McIlroy for the first time on Thursday and is among seven players who are three shots off the lead, with McIlroy a shot further back.<\/p>\n

Penge, who has claimed three Tour wins since starting the year with a three-month ban for breaching betting rules,<\/a> had three bogeys as he went round five under, while McIlroy parred his final seven holes to finish with one bogey in his round of 68.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryder Cup team-mates Tommy Fleetwood and Shane Lowry are in a share of the lead after the first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-247531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}