{"id":399062,"date":"2026-01-30T16:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T16:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/399062\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T16:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T16:42:08","slug":"harrington-six-adrift-after-opening-71-in-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/399062\/","title":{"rendered":"Harrington six adrift after opening 71 in Bahrain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alejandro Del Rey and Freddy Schott share a one-shot lead after opening rounds of 65 while Padraig Harrington lies six strokes back at the Bapco Energies Bahrain Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Spaniard Del Rey was flawless as he carded seven birdies to set the clubhouse target at seven under.<\/p>\n<p>It looked as though that would be too much for the rest of the field, but Germany&#8217;s Schott completed his roller-coaster round with a birdie-eagle finish to join him at the summit.<\/p>\n<p>Defending champion Laurie Canter leads a group of five at six under on a logjammed leaderboard where 28 players sit within four of the leading pair.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/results\/golf\/european-tour-1\/28889\/bahrain-championship-908759\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FULL LEADERBOARD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Harrington, the sole Irish player in the field, was inside the top-20 after 14 holes, having registered four birdies with just one dropped stroke to lie at three-under par.<\/p>\n<p>However, late bogeys on the 15th and 18th holes saw him slip back to one-under par for the competition, in tied-58th alongside 23 other players.<\/p>\n<p>Hero Dubai Desert Classic winner Patrick Reed, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/golf\/2026\/0128\/1555636-reed-leaves-liv-and-announces-pga-return\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced his intention to leave the LIV Tour yesterday<\/a>, is among that bulging cohort at one-under after an opening 71.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alejandro Del Rey and Freddy Schott share a one-shot lead after opening rounds of 65 while Padraig Harrington&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-399062","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\/399062","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=399062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}