{"id":791614,"date":"2026-10-04T11:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T11:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/791614\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T11:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T11:08:08","slug":"power-surges-into-top-20-as-smotherman-stays-clear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/791614\/","title":{"rendered":"Power surges into top 20 as Smotherman stays clear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seamus Power&#8217;s low round of the week has him battling for a top-10 spot at the Bank of Utah Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Power, who made the weekend with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/golf\/2026\/1003\/1593871-power-goes-low-to-make-weekend-in-utah\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a birdie on the final hole of his second round<\/a>, got around in 64 to move to 13 under, 10 shots behind leader Austin Smotherman.<\/p>\n<p>The Waterford man had a tidy round, with three birdies on the way out &#8211; at 11, 14 and 18 &#8211; before coming home on the front nine with birdies at three, four, seven and nine.<\/p>\n<p>It leaves him in a tie for 21st alongside four other players.<\/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 goes into the final round with the same goal as the golfer one stroke behind him &#8212; to win for the first time on the PGA Tour.<\/p>\n<p>Smotherman shot 65 to get to 23 under par, with Doug Ghim at 22 under after his 64 on Saturday at the Black Desert Resort<\/p>\n<p>Ghim, in his 192nd start on tour, will be paired on Sunday with Smotherman, in his 100th career start.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s good pressure,&#8221; said Smotherman.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s what we work for. That&#8217;s the spot you want to be. Coming down, you hold all the cards. Yeah, I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s going to be some energy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Smotherman has two top-10 finishes this year and is 79th in the FexExCup Fall series standings.<\/p>\n<p>Additional reporting: Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seamus Power&#8217;s low round of the week has him battling for a top-10 spot at the Bank of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-791614","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\/791614","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=791614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}