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Rory McIlroy<\/a> continued to struggle as his slim hopes of a Players Championship defence slipped away after a scrappy level-par round left him in the bottom half of the field.<\/p>\n Two of his three bogeys came after finding water off the ninth and 12th tees, the second cutting short his momentum after successive birdies threatened to kickstart his back nine.<\/p>\n But while the Northern Irishman, who will defend his Masters title next month, was stuck on one over, his Ryder Cup team-mates were flourishing.<\/p>\n Robert MacIntyre\u2019s superb seven-under round of 65 \u2013 his best at Sawgrass \u2013 had nine birdies, with a brilliant finish of three in succession from the 15th and concluding with a nerveless 10-foot par putt to set the clubhouse lead at seven under.<\/p>\n Leader Ludvig Aberg<\/a> had not started his round by the time MacIntyre had signed his card but the Scot\u2019s position in the top five at that point gave him hope of a Sunday charge as 40 of the last 41 winners were in the top-six entering the final round.<\/p>\n Still on their front nine, Justin Rose, Matt Fitzpatrick, Viktor Hovland, Sepp Straka and Tommy Fleetwood<\/a> were all inside the top 14.<\/p>\n World<\/a> number one Scottie Scheffler<\/a> shrugged off his struggles of the first two days with a bogey-free, five-under 67 to lift him to four under for the tournament.<\/p>\n He rejected the suggestion that the work he had been doing on the range had produced a fix for his erratic driving.<\/p>\n \u201cDid I find anything? I think that would imply that I was lost, which is not the case,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Spectators were delayed from entering the course in the morning \u201cfor operational reasons\u201d after two people were shot and killed on Friday night less than a mile from the tournament\u2019s main parking area and the suspect entered PGA property where he encountered tournament employees during his attempted escape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-477073","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\/477073","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=477073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}