{"id":661274,"date":"2026-06-27T15:03:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T15:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/661274\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T15:03:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T15:03:15","slug":"wallace-breaks-course-record-mckibbin-well-placed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/661274\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallace breaks course record, McKibbin well placed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England&#8217;s Matt Wallace broke the course record in Turin to surge into contention as playing partner Joaquin Niemann led the Open d\u2019Italia at the halfway stage.<\/p>\n<p>Wallace fired 10 birdies and a bogey in a superb 62 to reach 11-under par \u2013 still four shots behind Niemann, who followed his opening 64 with a 63 to lead by two from second-placed Angel Ayora.<\/p>\n<p>Wallace finished his round by chipping in at the ninth to beat the record of 63 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/golf\/2026\/0625\/1580383-molinari-sets-course-record-with-mckibbin-five-off-lead\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">set just the previous day by Edoardo Molinari<\/a>, playing on his home course at Circolo Golf Torino.<\/p>\n<p>And the Englishman, who gave a tearful interview after narrowly missing out on last year\u2019s Ryder Cup, joked that he may have harmed his chances again by taking the record \u2013 and the chance of a \u20ac35,000 bonus prize \u2013 from Luke Donald\u2019s trusted vice-captain.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/results\/golf\/european-tour-1\/28889\/open-ditalia-908771\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FULL LEADERBOARD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;I\u2019m not doing my Ryder Cup many favours am I, beating &#8216;Dodo&#8217; (Molinari)? I should have just two-putted it or something.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ireland&#8217;s Tom McKibbin followed up Thursday&#8217;s 68 with a fine 67, good enough for seven-under par, eight shots back.<\/p>\n<p>Like in Round 1, McKibbin was out on 34, and birdies at 13 and 15 ensured he sits in a tie for 18th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England&#8217;s Matt Wallace broke the course record in Turin to surge into contention as playing partner Joaquin Niemann&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-661274","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\/661274","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=661274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}