{"id":892188,"date":"2026-10-23T18:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T18:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/892188\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T18:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T18:48:09","slug":"power-surges-into-contention-on-day-two-in-bermuda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/892188\/","title":{"rendered":"Power surges into contention on day two in Bermuda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A scintillating seven-under-par 64 helped Waterford&#8217;s Seamus Power surge into contention on day two at the Butterfield Bermuda Championship.<\/p>\n<p>The D\u00e9ise man is hoping for a big weekend at the Royal Port Golf Course in Southampton, where he won back in 2022, in order to keep his PGA Tour card for next year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/results\/golf\/pga-tour-1\/28348\/bermuda-championship-920209\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FULL LEADERBOARD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He did himself no harm on Friday, ending his round on 12 under to sit one behind clubhouse leaders Kensei Hirata &#8211; who matched Power&#8217;s 64 &#8211; and American Chandler Blanchet.<\/p>\n<p>Following an opening five-under-par 66 that left Power in a tie for 20th, he made his move in the morning wave on Friday with a bogey-free round.<\/p>\n<p>Starting on the 10th tee, the 39-year-old played his first seven holes in one under par, with the sole birdie coming at the par-three 13th hole, his fourth of the day.<\/p>\n<p>Further birdies followed on the par-five 17th and the short, closing par-four 18th, to make the turn at three-under for the day, and eight-under overall.<\/p>\n<p>Further pars followed on holes one and two, before the two-time PGA Tour winner made his move on the home straight.<\/p>\n<p>Pristine iron shots set up birdies at the par-three third and par-four fourth holes, before Power picked up two more shots on the sixth and ninth holes to get to 12 under par.<\/p>\n<p>He was joined there by Corey Conners of Canada with play still ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A scintillating seven-under-par 64 helped Waterford&#8217;s Seamus Power surge into contention on day two at the Butterfield Bermuda&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":892189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-892188","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\/892188","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=892188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/892189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}