{"id":624304,"date":"2026-06-06T11:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T11:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/624304\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T11:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T11:15:08","slug":"the-memorial-tournament-scottie-scheffler-and-rory-mcilroy-struggle-as-jt-poston-leads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/624304\/","title":{"rendered":"The Memorial Tournament: Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy struggle as JT Poston leads"},"content":{"rendered":"

The world’s top two players Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy struggled in their second round at the Memorial Tournament and sit eight shots behind leader JT Poston.<\/p>\n

World number one Scheffler, who is aiming to win the tournament for a third straight year, bogeyed holes eight, nine and 10 before three birdies on the back nine saw him salvage a level-par 72 to leave him at one over following his opening-round 73.<\/p>\n

“I felt like I was going to shoot about 90 today,” said the American four-time major winner.<\/p>\n

“That’s maybe some of the worst I’ve hit it in a couple years out there and I still managed to shoot even par around a golf course that requires you to strike the ball really well,” added the 29-year-old.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Northern Ireland’s McIlroy, 37, carded a two-over par 74 at Muirfield Village Golf Club which included a double-bogey, two bogeys and a birdie in his last six holes.<\/p>\n

This is only the third tournament the six-time major winner has played<\/a> since winning the Masters in April and it is his only warm-up event before this month’s US Open at Shinnecock Hills.<\/p>\n

World number 94 Poston shot a seven-under-par 65 to lead on nine under, a shot ahead of fellow American Ryan Gerard.<\/p>\n

Poston, 33, has three PGA Tour wins and his last came in 2024.<\/p>\n

England’s Tommy Fleetwood is in fourth place, five shots off the lead, while compatriot and PGA Championship winner Aaron Rai is on one under.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The world’s top two players Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy struggled in their second round at the Memorial…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-624304","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\/624304","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=624304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}