{"id":508512,"date":"2026-03-07T04:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T04:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/508512\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T04:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T04:02:07","slug":"arnold-palmer-invitational-daniel-berger-leads-by-five-as-rory-mcilroy-rallies-in-bay-hill-second-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/508512\/","title":{"rendered":"Arnold Palmer Invitational: Daniel Berger leads by five as Rory McIlroy rallies in Bay Hill second round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following a level-par opening round, Northern Irishman McIlroy will begin the third round tied ninth after he improved to four under.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McIlroy remained even as he reached the back nine but birdied four of the next seven holes to post 68 and climb up the leaderboard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">World number one Scottie Scheffler appeared set to match his opening round 70 but the American slipped to three under after bogeying the 18th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tommy Fleetwood rallied with three birdies on the back nine to get back to one over par and inside the weekend cut-off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Berger has suffered a run of injuries, including a back issue which sidelined him for 18 months and fractured a finger at the BMW Championship in August last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He put himself on course for a long-awaited victory &#8211; and the \u00a33m top prize &#8211; after a clean run on the back nine included three birdies to strengthen his position.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I actually feel like I played better [today], the course was a little tougher,&#8221; Berger said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m looking forward to the next couple of days and seeing the challenge they bring.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following a level-par opening round, Northern Irishman McIlroy will begin the third round tied ninth after he improved&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-508512","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\/508512","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=508512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}