{"id":774217,"date":"2026-09-18T01:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T01:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/774217\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T01:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T01:54:09","slug":"power-rallies-to-make-fast-start-in-asheville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/774217\/","title":{"rendered":"Power rallies to make fast start in Asheville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ireland&#8217;s Seamus Power rallied back from a slow start to shoot an opening round of five-under-par 66 on day one of the Biltmore Championship in Asheville.<\/p>\n<p>The Waterford man, who missed the cut at last week&#8217;s Amgen Irish Open in Doonbeg, finished his round just two shots back of the clubhouse lead, shared by Eric Cole and Max Greyserman.<\/p>\n<p>Power made an early bogey on the par five third hole, paying the price for an errant tee shot and having to take a penalty drop. Yet, from there, he never looked back.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/results\/golf\/pga-tour-1\/28348\/biltmore-championship-asheville-920206\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FULL LEADERBOARD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Birdies followed at four and five, with another at the par five eighth hole as Power made the turn in 33 shots, at two-under-par.<\/p>\n<p>Another birdie followed at the tenth, stitching an iron to three feet for his three. In a measured back nine, Power took advantage of the remaining par fives, at 15 and 17, to get into the clubhouse at five-under.<\/p>\n<p>Cole and Greyserman hold the early lead at seven under, with Power two back in a tie for seventh place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland&#8217;s Seamus Power rallied back from a slow start to shoot an opening round of five-under-par 66 on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-774217","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\/774217","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=774217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}