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Enable Cookies<\/a> McIlroy made a strong start, eagling the second and adding two more birdies, before dropping shots either side of another pair of birdies after the turn.<\/p>\n “I feel like I wasted a few shots out there or at least just wasn’t efficient with my scoring and didn’t capitalise on my good start the last couple of days,” he said.<\/p>\n Image: “I played pretty good but with the weather coming in on Sunday, [Saturday’s] going to be a really important day to get yourself in position.<\/p>\n “Sunday looks like it could be pretty messy and a lot of things could happen, so the closer you are to the lead Sunday the better. Even if I am a few behind going into Sunday, everyone will have a chance given those conditions.”<\/p>\n Bhatia carded an eagle and six birdies in an eight-under-par round of 64 at Spyglass Hill to move alongside overnight leader Hisatsune at 15-under-par.<\/p>\n World No 1 Scottie Scheffler picked up five shots in his last seven holes to move to six-under-par.<\/p>\n Watch the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am throughout the week live on Sky Sports. Live coverage continues on Saturday from 4.30pm on Sky Sports Golf. Get Sky Sports<\/a> or stream with no contract on NOW<\/a>.<\/p>\n Get the best prices and book a round at one of 1,700 courses across the UK & Ireland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy insists he is still in contention after reaching the halfway mark of the AT&T Pebble Beach…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-470437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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