{"id":38954,"date":"2026-02-15T02:45:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T02:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/att-pebble-beach-pro-am-birdie-run-puts-akshay-bhatia-ahead\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T02:45:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T02:45:47","slug":"att-pebble-beach-pro-am-birdie-run-puts-akshay-bhatia-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/att-pebble-beach-pro-am-birdie-run-puts-akshay-bhatia-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"AT&#038;T Pebble Beach Pro-Am: Birdie run puts Akshay Bhatia ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Akshay Bhatia holds a two-shot lead after the third round of the AT&amp;T Pebble Beach Pro-Am as fellow American Collin Morikawa&#8217;s round of 62 moved him into contention for his first victory in almost two and a half years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bhatia had been tied for top spot on 15 under with Ryo Hisatsune going into the day&#8217;s play, but six birdies in his first seven holes helped him on his way to a lead that was as many as five shots at one point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Battling blustery conditions in California, a bogey at 17 saw his advantage cut to two.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gusts then slowed play down considerably on the final green and a missed putt for birdie saw Bhatia card 68 to stand at 19 under.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Morikawa&#8217;s round, 10-under-par, saw him climb the leaderboard into second at 17 under.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An eagle at the last hole &#8211; having managed the same at the first &#8211; moved another American, Jake Knapp, into joint-second with his round totalling 66.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Austrian Sepp Straka made it a three-way tie with a 67.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Defending champion Rory McIlroy, six back at the start of the day, fell further behind the lead despite starting with two birdies in the opening three holes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A three-over-par seven at the fourth and a double bogey at the last saw him shoot an even par 72 and trailing by 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With heavy rain and strong winds forecast for Sunday, start times for the tournament&#8217;s final round have been moved forward and will now run from 07:22-09:45 local time, with threesomes off split tees.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/golf\/articles\/cdr2yj7xjlpo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Akshay Bhatia holds a two-shot lead after the third round of the AT&amp;T Pebble Beach Pro-Am as fellow American Collin Morikawa&#8217;s round of 62 moved him into contention for his first victory in almost two and a half years. Bhatia had been tied for top spot on 15 under with Ryo Hisatsune going into the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38955,"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\/38954"}],"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=38954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38956,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38954\/revisions\/38956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}