{"id":775632,"date":"2026-09-19T09:26:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T09:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/775632\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T09:26:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T09:26:19","slug":"power-well-placed-at-halfway-point-of-biltmore-chship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/775632\/","title":{"rendered":"Power well placed at halfway point of Biltmore Ch&#8217;ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seamus Power backed up his strong Thursday with a second round of four-under-par, 67, to remain in the hunt at the Biltmore Championship in Asheville.<\/p>\n<p>The Waterford man started the day two behind, and got off to a dream start with a birdie on his opening hole, the par four tenth.<\/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\">LEADERBOARD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Further birdies followed on 13 and 14 as he made the turn in three-under, before losing momentum, albeit never dropping a shot.<\/p>\n<p>A fourth and final birdie on his 17th, the eighth hole, saw him post a midway score of nine-under-par.<\/p>\n<p>However, Neal Shipley&#8217;s stunning 62 saw him bolt into the lead at 15 under, six clear of Power.<\/p>\n<p>Shipley capitalized on a birdie-birdie-eagle start to his round to record best score of his young career. The is one stroke \u2060ahead of Ben Kohles (63).<\/p>\n<p>Ricky Castillo also shot 62 Friday and jumped into a tie for third with Max Greyserman (67) at 11 under.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Cole (68) is alone in fifth at 10 under at The Cliffs at Walnut Cove.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament is the opener of the PGA Tour&#8217;s FedEx Cup Fall series, which solidifies playing status for next season for those who did not make the play-offs. The top 100 players at the end of the FedEx Cup Fall series keep their tour cards. Finishing in the 51-to-60 range grants access to the \u200cfirst two signature events of 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Additional reporting: Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seamus Power backed up his strong Thursday with a second round of four-under-par, 67, to remain in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":775633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-775632","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\/775632","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=775632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}