{"id":387106,"date":"2026-01-24T01:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T01:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/387106\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T01:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T01:15:08","slug":"american-express-teenager-blades-brown-and-scottie-scheffler-share-second-round-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/387106\/","title":{"rendered":"American Express: Teenager Blades Brown and Scottie Scheffler share second-round lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A stunning 12-under 60 gave teenager Blades Brown a share of the lead with world number one Scottie Scheffler after the second round of the American Express in California.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 18-year-old&#8217;s eye-catching 10 birdies and an eagle put him on 17 under alongside his fellow American.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On his first PGA Tour appearance of the season, Scheffler followed up his opening round of 63 with an eight-under 64.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 29-year-old made three birdies on the front nine at in La Quinta, before another five followed for a second consecutive bogey-free round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scheffler has yet to win the American Express tournament, which boasts a prize of \u00a31,236,000 ($1.656m) for the champion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">South Korea&#8217;s Si-Woo Kim is a shot behind the leaders after a round of 65 left him at 16 under, while compatriot Seong-Hyeon Kim and American Matt McCarty are a further shot back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A stunning 12-under 60 gave teenager Blades Brown a share of the lead with world number one Scottie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-387106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387106","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=387106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}