{"id":1634,"date":"2022-09-14T02:27:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T02:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/bmw-pga-championship-rory-mcilroy-in-contention-as-tournament-resumes\/"},"modified":"2022-09-14T02:27:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T02:27:01","slug":"bmw-pga-championship-rory-mcilroy-in-contention-as-tournament-resumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/bmw-pga-championship-rory-mcilroy-in-contention-as-tournament-resumes\/","title":{"rendered":"BMW PGA Championship: Rory McIlroy in contention as tournament resumes"},"content":{"rendered":"


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-12<\/strong> S Kjeldsen (Den), V Hovland (Nor); <\/span>-11<\/strong> T Detry (Bel), R Cabrera Bello (Spa), R McIlroy (NI); <\/span>-10<\/strong> F Molinari (Ita), M Jordan (Eng), S Lowry (Ire)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Selected: <\/strong>-9<\/strong> M Armitage (Eng), J Morrison (Eng);<\/span> -7<\/strong> D Law (Sco); <\/span>-5 <\/strong>L Westwood (Eng)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Rory McIlory put himself in contention at the BMW PGA Championship with a seven-under 65 after players, caddies and officials paid tribute to Queen Elizabeth II as the tournament resumed.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A two-minute silence was observed across the West course at Wentworth at 09:50 BST.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Queen Elizabeth II, the UK’s longest-serving monarch, died on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n

McIlroy is one shot behind leaders Soren Kjeldsen and Viktor Hovland after his fine round moved him to 11 under.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A two-minute silence was observed at 09:50 BST in tribute to Queen Elizabeth II<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Northern Irishman had a bogey-free day that included five birdies and an eagle on the fourth.<\/span><\/p>\n

McIlroy had a stroke of luck when he pulled his drive on the 17th into trees and towards the out of bounds, only for his ball to emerge a few seconds later on the edge of the fairway.<\/span><\/p>\n

He went on to make birdie and is alongside Spain’s Rafael Cabrera Bello and Thomas Detry of Belgium, who both also carded 65s.<\/span><\/p>\n

England’s Matthew Jordan – who made eagles on the fourth and 18th on his way to a 69 – is a stroke behind along with two former Open champions, Francesco Molinari of Italy and Ireland’s Shane Lowry.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dane Kjeldsen carded an eight-under 64 to move to 12 under while Norway’s Hovland signed for a 68.<\/span><\/p>\n

Play was suspended on Thursday evening following the death of the Queen but resumed on Saturday with the tournament reduced to 54 holes.<\/span><\/p>\n

McIlroy paid tribute to the Queen’s “dignity, dedication and grace personified” after his round.<\/span><\/p>\n

He added: “Growing up in Northern Ireland the Royal Family was part of our culture and you just sort of took it for granted that the Queen is the Queen.<\/span><\/p>\n

“You don’t realise that there’s going to be kings and queens after that. She was such a steadying figure for the entire country.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I was very fortunate, I got to meet her a few years ago and she could not have been nicer. I have the picture of that in my house alongside my MBE, which I am very proud of as well.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I thought it was the right decision for us to continue. I don’t think we are disrespecting anyone by playing and celebrating what a life the Queen had.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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A tribute to the Queen was shown on screens at Wentworth during the two-minute silence<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n


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-12 S Kjeldsen (Den), V Hovland (Nor); -11 T Detry (Bel), R Cabrera Bello (Spa), R McIlroy (NI); -10 F Molinari (Ita), M Jordan (Eng), S Lowry (Ire) Selected: -9 M Armitage (Eng), J Morrison (Eng); -7 D Law (Sco); -5 L Westwood (Eng) Full leaderboard Coverage: Highlights on BBC Four, 19:00-20:00 BST Sunday and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1635,"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\/1634"}],"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=1634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1636,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions\/1636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}