{"id":250468,"date":"2025-11-08T02:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T02:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/250468\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T02:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T02:50:10","slug":"power-sitting-just-outside-top-30-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/250468\/","title":{"rendered":"Power sitting just outside top 30 in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seamus Power sat just outside the top 30 after his first round at the World Wide Technology Championship in Mexico.<\/p>\n

The Waterford man, requiring a strong finish to the season in order to secure full PGA playing privileges for 2026, is on four-under par after a first-round 68 at El Cardonal at Diamante.<\/p>\n

That leaves him seven shots off clubhouse leader Nick Dunlap of America, and Finland’s Sami Valimaki who both opened with brilliant rounds of 61 \u2013 the pair unsurprisingly having bogey-free cards as they tied the course record.<\/p>\n

They hold a three-shot lead over five players, Vince Whaley, Kris Ventura, Matti Schmid, Chad Ramey and Andrew Putnam.<\/p>\n

That wasn\u2019t something Power could boast having dropped a shot at the fifth after requiring a drop, but five birdies – including at the closing par-five 18th – had him well positioned ahead of the second round.<\/p>\n

FULL LEADERBOARD<\/a><\/p>\n

Six players had not yet finished their rounds when play was suspended due todarkness at 5:41 pm local time. They will wrap up Friday morning before the second round begins as scheduled.<\/p>\n

Dunlap went six-under through his final six holes by making four birdies and aneagle at the par-5 18th.<\/p>\n

The 21-year-old is best known for winning the American Express in 2024 as anamateur, earning a PGA Tour card through 2026. He added a second win that year at the Barracuda Championship, but struggled mightily in 2025 and ranked No 145 in the FedEx Cup Fall standings entering the week.<\/p>\n

“Golf’s been very hard recently and today was the opposite of that,” Dunlap said. “It’s a hard game. Kind of seems like if something can go wrong, it has recently. Just try not to make it personal in a way and just kind of comeout here and try to have as much fun as I can. We’re in a pretty cool spot.”<\/p>\n

Valimaki, 27, has yet to win on tour after having some success in Europe. He stood No 103 in the FedEx Cup Fall race entering the week and would gain a lot from a victory. <\/p>\n

“It’s not the best pressure but it’s how it is,” Valimaki said. “At least I made my card back in Europe so at least I have something over there, so I feel like that gives you a little extra freedom. Of course you want to play here, but I just have to play good these last three (events).”<\/p>\n

Defending champion Austin Eckroat is likely to miss the cut Friday after opening with a two-over 74.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seamus Power sat just outside the top 30 after his first round at the World Wide Technology Championship…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-250468","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\/250468","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=250468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}