{"id":10343,"date":"2023-06-11T13:15:54","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T13:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/canadian-open-rory-mcilroy-tommy-fleetwood-justin-rose-two-off-lead\/"},"modified":"2023-06-11T13:15:55","modified_gmt":"2023-06-11T13:15:55","slug":"canadian-open-rory-mcilroy-tommy-fleetwood-justin-rose-two-off-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/canadian-open-rory-mcilroy-tommy-fleetwood-justin-rose-two-off-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Open: Rory McIlroy, Tommy Fleetwood & Justin Rose two off lead"},"content":{"rendered":"


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McIlroy won last year’s Canadian Open by two strokes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<\/thead>\n\n\n\n\n
-14<\/strong> CT Pan (Twn); <\/span>-12<\/strong> R McIlroy (NI), T Fleetwood (Eng), J Rose (Eng), M Hubbard (US), H Higgs (US), A Novak (US); <\/span>-11<\/strong> N Taylor (US), A Rai (Eng)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Selected others:<\/strong>-10 <\/strong>C Conners (Can); <\/span>-8<\/strong> T Hatton (Eng); <\/span>-6<\/strong> M Fitzpatrick (Eng); <\/span>-5<\/strong> S Lowry (Ire)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Rory McIlroy stepped up his bid for a third successive Canadian Open title by moving into a tie for second place heading into the final round.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Northern Irishman’s six-under-par 66 in Toronto left him two shots behind leader CT Pan of Taiwan.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

McIlroy is in a group of six players on 12 under which includes England’s Tommy Fleetwood and Justin Rose.<\/span><\/p>\n

Americans Mark Hubbard, Harry Higgs and Andrew Novak are also on 12 under, with England’s Aaron Rai a stroke back.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rai shot a 69 to share eighth place with Canada’s Nick Taylor, who broke the Oakdale Golf and Country Club course record with a 63.<\/span><\/p>\n

McIlroy is aiming to become the first player to win three consecutive Canadian Opens – played over five years because of Covid cancellations – and the first in any PGA Tour event since Steve Stricker won the John Deere Classic from 2009 to 2011.<\/span><\/p>\n

McIlroy carded six birdies in improved conditions after Friday’s rain.<\/span><\/p>\n

“It was prime for scoring,” said McIlroy, who will attempt to win a second US Open in Los Angeles next week.<\/span><\/p>\n

“It’s really that back nine you need to take advantage of. But it was nice to sort of have what I felt was a cushion after playing the front nine so well.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Last week the PGA Tour and DP World Tour announced a shock merger with LIV Golf, which is funded by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund.<\/span><\/p>\n

McIlroy, who has been a critic of LIV Golf, said he felt like “a sacrificial lamb” since the announcement.<\/span><\/p>\n

“For whatever reason, I seem to play better when there’s a little bit of noise going on in the world of golf,” he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

“It’s really nice to get inside the ropes and just concentrate on my job at the end of the day, which is trying to get the ball around the golf course.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Rose, who won the US Open 10 years ago, birdied five straight holes from the 12th and added another on the last to card a 66, while Fleetwood – yet to win a tournament in the US – would have matched the course record with his 64 had it not been for Taylor’s brilliant earlier round.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pan, chasing a second tour title, birdied the final two holes in a round of 66, while halfway leader Carl Yuan of China shot a 74 to slip into joint 16th on seven under.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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McIlroy won last year’s Canadian Open by two strokes -14 CT Pan (Twn); -12 R McIlroy (NI), T Fleetwood (Eng), J Rose (Eng), M Hubbard (US), H Higgs (US), A Novak (US); -11 N Taylor (US), A Rai (Eng) Selected others:-10 C Conners (Can); -8 T Hatton (Eng); -6 M Fitzpatrick (Eng); -5 S Lowry […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10344,"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\/10343"}],"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=10343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10345,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10343\/revisions\/10345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}