{"id":1808,"date":"2022-09-18T06:50:16","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T06:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/italian-open-matt-fitzpatrick-leads-in-rome-with-rory-mcilroy-one-behind\/"},"modified":"2022-09-18T06:50:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T06:50:17","slug":"italian-open-matt-fitzpatrick-leads-in-rome-with-rory-mcilroy-one-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/italian-open-matt-fitzpatrick-leads-in-rome-with-rory-mcilroy-one-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Open: Matt Fitzpatrick leads in Rome with Rory McIlroy one behind"},"content":{"rendered":"


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World number two Rory McIlroy’s round of 71 included three birdies and three bogeys<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<\/thead>\n\n\n\n\n
-10<\/strong> M Fitzpatrick (Eng); <\/span>-9<\/strong> R McIlroy (NI), A Rai (Eng); <\/span>-8<\/strong> K Kitayama (US), L Herbert (Aus), V Perez (Fra); <\/span>-7<\/strong> R MacIntyre (Sco), O Bekker (SA) <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Selected others:<\/strong> -6<\/strong> T Hatton (Eng); <\/span>-5<\/strong> J Smith (Eng), T Lewis (Eng); <\/span>-4<\/strong> F Molinari (Ita)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Matt Fitzpatrick will take a one-shot lead over Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy and fellow Englishman Aaron Rai into the final round of the Italian Open.<\/span><\/p>\n

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US Open champion Fitzpatrick’s two-under-par 69 left him on 10 under.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

McIlroy shot an up-and-down 71 that included a birdie at the last, which ensured the world number two will be in Sunday’s final group with Fitzpatrick. <\/span><\/p>\n

Rai fired a bogey-free 65 to climb 18 places on the leaderboard.<\/span><\/p>\n

While Fitzpatrick failed to card a birdie on his front nine, he picked up shots on the 10th and 12th before a four on the par-five 18th gave him sole possession of the 54-hole lead.<\/span><\/p>\n

McIlroy started with five straight pars and, while he birdied the sixth, the four-time major winner immediately dropped a shot at the next. <\/span><\/p>\n

A three-putt on the par-five 12th cost the 33-year-old another stroke, but he carded birdies on the 16th and 18th – either side of a dropped shot on the 17th – to stay firmly in the hunt. <\/span><\/p>\n

McIlroy, who clinched a third PGA Tour FedEx Cup title last month, leads the DP World Tour’s rankings – and victory this week would increase his advantage at the top of the standings.<\/span><\/p>\n

Two-time DP World Tour winner Rai was the only player to complete his round without a bogey in blustery conditions at Rome’s Marco Simone Club, which will stage next year’s Ryder Cup.<\/span><\/p>\n

Frenchman Victor Perez twice reached 10 under during a rollercoaster round of 69, however, a double bogey six on the 14th moved him back to eight under. While he holed a superb 76ft eagle putt to return to that mark, a bogey-bogey finish left the 30-year-old two shots back. <\/span><\/p>\n

American Kurt Kitayama (67) and Australia’s Lucas Herbert (68) are alongside Perez on eight under with Scotland’s Robert MacIntyre (67) a shot further back. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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World number two Rory McIlroy’s round of 71 included three birdies and three bogeys -10 M Fitzpatrick (Eng); -9 R McIlroy (NI), A Rai (Eng); -8 K Kitayama (US), L Herbert (Aus), V Perez (Fra); -7 R MacIntyre (Sco), O Bekker (SA) Selected others: -6 T Hatton (Eng); -5 J Smith (Eng), T Lewis (Eng); […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1809,"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\/1808"}],"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=1808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1810,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions\/1810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}