{"id":10073,"date":"2023-06-04T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2023-06-04T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/the-memorial-tournament-rory-mcilroy-moves-into-share-of-lead\/"},"modified":"2023-06-04T12:00:14","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T12:00:14","slug":"the-memorial-tournament-rory-mcilroy-moves-into-share-of-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/the-memorial-tournament-rory-mcilroy-moves-into-share-of-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"The Memorial Tournament: Rory McIlroy moves into share of lead"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Rory McIlroy last won a tournament at the Hero Dubai Desert Classic in January<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<\/thead>\n\n\n\n\n
-6:<\/strong> R McIlroy (NI), D Lipsky (US), K Si-woo (Kor); <\/span>-5: <\/strong>D McCarthy (US), V Hovland (Nor), W Clark (US), L Hodges (US), M Hubbard (US); <\/span>-4: <\/strong>C Morikawa (US), H Matsuyama (Jpn), P Cantlay (US), P Rodgers (US), K Bradley (US)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Selected others:<\/strong> -2<\/strong> D Willett (Eng), M Fitzpatrick (Eng), R Fowler (US), J Rahm (Spa)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Full leaderboard<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Rory McIlroy goes into the final round of the Memorial Tournament with “a great chance” of winning after a dogged third round lifted him into a share of the lead on six under.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Northern Irishman’s two-under-par 70 on Saturday saw him climb six places on the leaderboard.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

He leads with American David Lipsky (72) and South Korea’s Kim Si-woo (71).<\/span><\/p>\n

“I need to stick to the gameplan, not get too ahead of myself or be too aggressive,” McIlroy told Sky Sports.<\/span><\/p>\n

McIlroy, 34, has been focused on keeping the ball in play off the tee at the challenging Muirfield Village Golf Club in Ohio.<\/span><\/p>\n

But he excelled on the greens in round three, needing just 22 putts all day – the fewest of anyone in the field.<\/span><\/p>\n

The world number three added: “I am feeling more comfortable. I don’t think I am 100%. I am battling and hanging in there. The course is playing really tough and it’s about positioning your way around the course. <\/span><\/p>\n

“It feels better. I keep saying this, I feel like I am not fighting the club face as much as I have been. I am able to release it a little bit more and just have a little more trust in it. This week, with how tough it’s playing, you need to trust it.”<\/span><\/p>\n

McIlroy’s key moments saw him chip in from off the green for a birdie on the par-three 12th and – after dropping a shot on 16 – he fired an eight-iron from 178 yards to within 10 feet and holed the birdie putt on the 17th.<\/span><\/p>\n

American Lipsky has never won on the PGA Tour and despite still holding a share of the lead, he dropped three shots in his last six holes on day three.<\/span><\/p>\n

South Korea’s Kim was also not without his hiccups, posting double bogeys on holes three and 11, only to serve up six birdies to stay in contention.<\/span><\/p>\n

American Justin Suh fell from his position as overnight leader to 14th after dropping four shots in the opening four holes of a five-over-par round.<\/span><\/p>\n

And Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama – second overnight – was left to rue a triple bogey on 12 when he found water in a three-over-par round that saw him slip to joint ninth in the field.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Across<\/span><\/span>\"Across<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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Rory McIlroy last won a tournament at the Hero Dubai Desert Classic in January -6: R McIlroy (NI), D Lipsky (US), K Si-woo (Kor); -5: D McCarthy (US), V Hovland (Nor), W Clark (US), L Hodges (US), M Hubbard (US); -4: C Morikawa (US), H Matsuyama (Jpn), P Cantlay (US), P Rodgers (US), K Bradley […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10075,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10073\/revisions\/10075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}