{"id":14654,"date":"2024-03-09T05:36:21","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T05:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/cognizant-classic-rory-mcilroy-in-contention-as-bud-cauley-leads-at-halfway-stage\/"},"modified":"2024-03-09T05:36:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T05:36:22","slug":"cognizant-classic-rory-mcilroy-in-contention-as-bud-cauley-leads-at-halfway-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/cognizant-classic-rory-mcilroy-in-contention-as-bud-cauley-leads-at-halfway-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Cognizant Classic: Rory McIlroy in contention as Bud Cauley leads at halfway stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Northern Ireland&#8217;s Rory McIlroy is three shots behind American leader Bud Cauley at the halfway stage of the Cognizant Classic in Florida.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">World number 1,258 Cauley is making just his second PGA Tour start since September 2020 after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pgatour.com\/article\/news\/latest\/2024\/03\/01\/bud-cauley-returns-to-pga-tour-leads-after-second-round-cognizant-classic-in-the-palm-beaches-pga-national\" class=\"ssrcss-co0e25-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">injury struggles following a car accident<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a> in 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A bogey-free 65 at PGA National put the 33-year-old on 11 under.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McIlroy, the world number two, carded a second consecutive four-under-par 67 to reach eight under.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">American Austin Eckroat and South African Garrick Higgo are on 10 under, while Englishman David Skinns and Ireland&#8217;s Shane Lowry are alongside McIlroy in a group of players on eight under.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Belgium&#8217;s Thomas Detry props up the leaderboard after he six-putted the par-four sixth hole, despite hitting his second shot to within 6ft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He eventually walked off the green with a quadruple-bogey eight and carded an 80 to drop to 11 over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ten players will complete their second rounds on Saturday after play was suspended because of darkness at Palm Beach Gardens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cauley, who is playing on a medical exemption after he sustained six broken ribs, a collapsed right lung and a fractured left leg in the 2018 crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He returned to playing but had complications in late 2020 and needed follow-up surgeries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cauley returned to the developmental Korn Ferry Tour in January with two top-35 finishes and he made his PGA Tour comeback at last month&#8217;s Phoenix Open where he finished 65th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There were a lot of times where I thought that my career was over,&#8221; Cauley said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;To be back here playing and playing well, it&#8217;s nice. It just makes me that much more happy that I kept after it and didn&#8217;t stop trying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My expectation was to come out and compete, and I felt like my game was in a good spot. Saying it is one thing, doing it is another.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/golf\/68455897\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northern Ireland&#8217;s Rory McIlroy is three shots behind American leader Bud Cauley at the halfway stage of the Cognizant Classic in Florida. World number 1,258 Cauley is making just his second PGA Tour start since September 2020 after injury struggles following a car accident, external in 2018. 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