{"id":572427,"date":"2026-05-08T05:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T05:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/572427\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T05:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T05:47:10","slug":"rory-mcilroy-cards-70-in-first-round-at-quail-hollow-in-truist-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/572427\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy cards 70 in first round at Quail Hollow in Truist Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rory McIlroy posted a first round of 70 at the Truist Championship as he began his challenge to win at Quail Hollow for a fifth time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 37-year-old from Northern Ireland made 17 pars before his only birdie of a one-under round came at the 18th hole.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">American Matt McCarty set the early pace with an eight-under-par 63 at the event in Charlotte.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England&#8217;s Harry Hall managed six birdies and one bogey as he ended the opening round with a five-under 66.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Compatriots Tommy Fleetwood, whose round included an eagle on the 10th, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/golf\/articles\/cdrmr6rppe4o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Fitzpatrick, fresh from securing tour membership,<\/a> are on four under after 67s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England&#8217;s Matt Wallace and Justin Rose both signed for level-par rounds of 71, while Scotland&#8217;s Robert MacIntyre was two over with one to play when play was halted late in the evening because of inclement weather.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The tournament is the last event before the US PGA Championship takes place at the Aronimink Golf Club in Pennsylvania from 14-17 May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy posted a first round of 70 at the Truist Championship as he began his challenge to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-572427","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\/572427","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=572427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}