{"id":572751,"date":"2026-05-08T10:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T10:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/572751\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T10:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T10:17:09","slug":"power-well-placed-after-opening-round-at-myrtle-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/572751\/","title":{"rendered":"Power well placed after opening round at Myrtle Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seamus Power is well placed after a solid three-under-par opening round in the Myrtle Beach Classic.<\/p>\n

The Waterford golfer carded a round of 68 to sit in tied-15th, four strokes off the lead in South Carolina.<\/p>\n

Power birdied all three par fives, as well as the opening hole, with just one dropped stroke after a wayward approach at the eighth.<\/p>\n

He is four behind the leader, Scotland’s Martin Laird, who carded an opening 64. England’s Aaron Rai sits second on his own at six under.<\/p>\n

Power, a two-time winner on the PGA Tour, is part of a large grouping on three under which includes Brooks Koepka, the most high profile player in the field.<\/p>\n

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

The five-time major winner is in South Carolina rather than at the Truist due to the terms of the PGA Tour’s Returning Member Programme, which bars him from receiving a sponsor’s invite to signature events.<\/p>\n

Koepka was philosophical about his exclusion, saying he was “itching to get in, but I’m accepting of where I’m at, and I understand that there’s prices to pay for coming back, and I’m willing to accept those and whatever I have to do.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seamus Power is well placed after a solid three-under-par opening round in the Myrtle Beach Classic. The Waterford…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-572751","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\/572751","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=572751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}