{"id":574331,"date":"2026-05-09T07:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T07:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/574331\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T07:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T07:21:09","slug":"power-retreats-as-rai-rises-at-myrtle-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/574331\/","title":{"rendered":"Power retreats as Rai rises at Myrtle Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seamus Power fell back to two under for the tournament, eight off the lead, after a bogey-ridden inward nine on Friday at the Myrtle Beach Classic in South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>The Waterford golfer recorded an impressive opening round of 68 to sit inside the top 20 overnight. Starting on the 10th, he reached the turn in four under after a birdie on the 16th.<\/p>\n<p>However, four bogeys in seven holes in his homeward stretch set him back, with just one birdie at the par-five fourth hole amid this run. He did regain some lost ground with a birdie at the short ninth to card a round of 72.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/results\/golf\/pga-tour-1\/28348\/myrtle-beach-classic-908478\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FULL LEADERBOARD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>England&#8217;s Aaron Rai holds the lead at the midway point on 10 under par after a second-round 67.<\/p>\n<p>Rai, whose sole PGA Tour win came at the 2024 Wyndham Championship, carded six birdies on Friday, with two dropped shots.<\/p>\n<p>He leads by one stroke from the 45-year old veteran Brandt Snedeker and Mark Hubbard. Christiaan Bezuidenhout and Kevin Roy share fourth spot on eight under.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament&#8217;s highest profile entrant Brooks Koepka is at four under par after a one under round of 70.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seamus Power fell back to two under for the tournament, eight off the lead, after a bogey-ridden inward&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-574331","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\/574331","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=574331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}