{"id":33653,"date":"2025-08-17T20:05:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T20:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/fired-up-robert-macintyre-leads-scottie-scheffler-going-into-bmw-championship-final-round\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T20:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T20:05:07","slug":"fired-up-robert-macintyre-leads-scottie-scheffler-going-into-bmw-championship-final-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/fired-up-robert-macintyre-leads-scottie-scheffler-going-into-bmw-championship-final-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Fired up Robert MacIntyre leads Scottie Scheffler going into BMW Championship final round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;I don&#8217;t know if anyone was thrown out, but there was plenty of people to talk to. He  [a spectator] was just jeering. He was just shouting I missed it, he&#8217;s pushed it. Pushed it right in the middle of the hole, I guess.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It proved compelling viewing, with both set to go out again on Sunday in the second event of three that make up the FedEx Cup play-offs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sweden&#8217;s Ludvig Aberg is six shots adrift of MacIntrye at 10 under overall after a two-under 68, while Sam Burns and Harry Hall both went round in 67 to sit at eight under. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Englishman Hall&#8217;s performance means he is projected to sit inside the top 30 in the season-long standings after this tournament and advance to next week&#8217;s event in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Maverick McNealy and Tommy Fleetwood are another shot back after rounds of 69.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, Northern Ireland&#8217;s Rory McIlroy began his round with a double bogey and could only manage a one-over-par 71 to leave him in a tie for 14th at three under. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Aside from the duel between MacIntyre and Scheffler, the highlight of the day arrived when American Akshay Bhatia, battling for one of the last spots in Atlanta, made a hole in one on the par-three 17th hole with a five-iron.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When that golf ball goes in, it was the craziest thing in the world,&#8221; said Bhatia, who won a new car in the process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I couldn&#8217;t even feel my body. I don&#8217;t really necessarily need a new car: I&#8217;m pretty happy with what I&#8217;ve got. I think either I&#8217;ll give it to my caddie or figure something out to where I can donate it to charity or something.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/golf\/articles\/ckgdl3gv585o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He added: &#8220;I don&#8217;t know if anyone was thrown out, but there was plenty of people to talk to. He [a spectator] was just jeering. He was just shouting I missed it, he&#8217;s pushed it. Pushed it right in the middle of the hole, I guess.&#8221; It proved compelling viewing, with both set to go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33654,"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\/33653"}],"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=33653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33655,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33653\/revisions\/33655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}