{"id":790532,"date":"2026-10-03T09:34:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T09:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/790532\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T09:34:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T09:34:22","slug":"power-goes-low-to-make-weekend-in-utah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/790532\/","title":{"rendered":"Power goes low to make weekend in Utah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seamus Power had to go low to make the weekend at the Bank of Utah Championship and that&#8217;s exactly what he did, with a round of 66 to move to six under par.<\/p>\n<p>Austin Smotherman has the lead on 17 under, one clear of Kevin Roy in second place.<\/p>\n<p>Power, starting on the tenth, made a dream start to his second round with five birdies on his first six holes; the par-4 11th being the exception.<\/p>\n<p>But a run of three bogeys in five holes around the turn left his chances of making the cut in the balance. The Waterford man settled, and three more birdies, including one on the ninth &#8211; his last hole &#8211; saw him squeeze on the cut line.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/results\/golf\/pga-tour-1\/28348\/bank-of-utah-championship-920207\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Full leaderboard<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Smotherman finished with a three-birdie burst to card a 9-under-par 62, beating his Thursday score by one shot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today it was just very steady, a lot of greens, a lot of fairways, a couple tight wedges. It&#8217;s what you got to do to shoot 9 under,&#8221; said Smotherman, who hit all 18 greens in regulation and tied his career-low round.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old is seeking his first PGA Tour victory, along with access to the first two signature events of 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Additional reporting: Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seamus Power had to go low to make the weekend at the Bank of Utah Championship and that&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-790532","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\/790532","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=790532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}