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Robert MacIntyre<\/a> carded a brilliant 62 to hold a three-shot lead after day one of the BMW Championship at Caves Valley Golf Club.<\/p>\n The Scot was among the later starters that got to take advantage of softer conditions after a two-hour rain delay, with darkness preventing Bud Cauley from completing his opening round.<\/p>\n MacIntyre, who is on the verge of joining Rory McIlroy<\/a>, Tommy Fleetwood<\/a> and Justin Rose<\/a> in qualifying for Europe\u2019s Ryder Cup team, finished with six successive birdies and carded 10 in total against two bogeys.<\/p>\n The highlight of the left-hander\u2019s day came when he holed a 66-foot effort for birdie at the 13th to spark his spectacular finish.<\/p>\n \u201cThe last six holes is probably as good as I\u2019ve ever putted in a stretch of holes \u2013 just so consistent,\u201d said MacIntyre.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you get the eye on, it\u2019s free flowing, and it\u2019s nice.<\/p>\n \u201cI feel like the way I play golf is better suited for the tougher tests, where you\u2019re rewarded for hitting a fairway, you\u2019re rewarded for hitting a green, and then take your chances with the putter. Just happy with today\u2019s work.\u201d<\/p>\n MacIntyre leads by three from England\u2019s Fleetwood, whose wait for a first PGA Tour title goes on after he was pipped by Rose at the St Jude Classic last week.<\/p>\n Scottie Scheffler\u2019s hot streak continued as he fired an opening 66 to lie third.<\/p>\n The world number one finished with three birdies in the final four holes to top the early leaderboard at the second FedEx Cup event.<\/p>\n Scheffler, who has registered 12 successive top-eight finishes in a scintillating year, said on Sky Sports: \u201cIt changed pretty significantly, a lot softer. The fairways were a little bit harder to hit this morning.<\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019re still pretty wide, but they were still with the firmness, challenging to hit. And then with the softness coming in with the rain, the golf course got significantly easier.\u201d<\/p>\n Scheffler was playing with Masters champion Rory McIlroy, who carded a level-par 70.<\/p>\n The Northern Irishman, who skipped last week\u2019s FedEx Cup event knowing he is guaranteed to be in next week\u2019s Tour Championship, had a slow start, with three bogeys in the opening six holes, but battled back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-68270","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\/68270","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=68270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}