{"id":850989,"date":"2026-09-17T13:32:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T13:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/850989\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T13:32:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T13:32:19","slug":"mcilroy-rues-late-blemishes-in-first-round-at-wentworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/850989\/","title":{"rendered":"McIlroy rues late blemishes in first round at Wentworth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rory McIlroy has made an overall positive start in the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth, sitting three shots off clubhouse leader Aaron Rai following the conclusion to his first round.<\/p>\n<p>The two-times Masters champion was co-leader at one stage after five birdies in his first nine holes.<\/p>\n<p>Dropped shots at the third and sixth took some gloss off the round and the biggest setback came at the closing eighth when he found water from his approach to the green.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/results\/golf\/european-tour-1\/28889\/bmw-pga-championship-919989\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FULL LEADERBOARD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He did recover with a nine-foot putt to leave it as a single bogey and drop to three-under-par, within three shots of the leader.<\/p>\n<p>Rai, the PGA Championship winner this year, picked up seven birdies with just a single dropped shot on 16 for a 66.<\/p>\n<p>Shane Lowry, fresh from his Irish Open success, is five off Rai after four birdies and three bogeys left him one-under.<\/p>\n<p>Tom McKibbin is on one-over, with Padraig Harrington on two-over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy has made an overall positive start in the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth, sitting three shots&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":850990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-850989","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\/850989","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=850989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}