{"id":813079,"date":"2026-08-14T06:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T06:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/813079\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T06:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T06:10:10","slug":"robert-macintyre-suffers-through-round-1-at-fedex-st-jude-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/813079\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert MacIntyre suffers through Round 1 at FedEx St. Jude Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

The chase at the top of the FedEx St. Jude Championship<\/a> leaderboard has been pulsating with drama on Thursday, as five names finished 5 under to grab a share of the lead at TPC Southwind.<\/p>\n

Seven more players are a shot off the lead heading into the second round Friday.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s nowhere close to as tantalizing at the bottom where Robert MacIntyre has cleared the race for dead last by eight shots with an uninspired 12-over 82. MacIntyre is looking up at six-time major winner Rory McIlroy, who birdied just once on his front nine and once on his back on the way to a woeful 74<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Scotsman didn\u2019t get his first circle carded until the par-5 16th in an outing that saw him lose eight strokes to the field over five consecutive holes on the front nine. A triple bogey on the par-4 sixth \u2014 one of the course\u2019s most forgiving holes in Round 1 \u2014 was the most costly error of all.<\/p>\n

MacIntyre, who didn\u2019t speak to reporters after the round, did par eight consecutive holes after the triple but he didn\u2019t entirely avoid errors on his back nine. The six-time Tour winner double bogeyed at the par-4 15th and the final hole. <\/p>\n

MacIntyre is set to tee off Friday with J.T. Poston<\/a> (1 over) at 12:55 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n

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Don\u2019t miss the second round of the FedEx St. Jude Championship at TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tenn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The chase at the top of the FedEx St. Jude Championship leaderboard has been pulsating with drama on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-813079","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\/813079","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=813079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}