{"id":42143,"date":"2026-05-09T04:37:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T04:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/truist-championship-tommy-fleetwood-a-shot-behind-leader-sungjae-im-with-rory-mcilroy-in-contention\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T04:37:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T04:37:26","slug":"truist-championship-tommy-fleetwood-a-shot-behind-leader-sungjae-im-with-rory-mcilroy-in-contention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/truist-championship-tommy-fleetwood-a-shot-behind-leader-sungjae-im-with-rory-mcilroy-in-contention\/","title":{"rendered":"Truist Championship: Tommy Fleetwood a shot behind leader Sungjae Im with Rory McIlroy in contention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Tommy Fleetwood shot a four-under round of 67 to put himself within a stroke of the lead after the second round of the Truist Championship.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 35-year-old Englishman made five birdies and a bogey to match his Thursday score and move just behind South Korea&#8217;s Sungjae Im, who carded a steady two-under round of 69 to end the day at nine under.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fleetwood&#8217;s compatriot Alex Fitzpatrick and American Justin Thomas are a further shot back at seven under.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fitzpatrick is nine strokes ahead of older brother and world number three Matt Fitzpatrick, who is two over for the tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Masters champion Rory McIlroy followed up a consistent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/golf\/articles\/cq5pznn0gz5o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">first-round outing featuring 17 consecutive pars<\/a> with a four-under round of 67.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In between bogeys at the second and 18th, Northern Ireland&#8217;s McIlroy banked six birdies to keep himself in contention on five under at Quail Hollow in North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">American Rickie Fowler&#8217;s nine birdies helped him surge up the leaderboard with a second round of eight-under 63 to move level with McIlroy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fowler&#8217;s score was the best of the day by four strokes, and an 11-shot improvement on his opening round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">First-round leader Matt McCarty trended in the opposite direction, following Thursday&#8217;s 63 with a 74 to join Fowler and McIlroy in a tie for eighth through 36 holes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The no-cut tournament is the last event before the US PGA Championship takes place at the Aronimink Golf Club in Pennsylvania from 14-17 May.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/golf\/articles\/c5yell28zz7o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tommy Fleetwood shot a four-under round of 67 to put himself within a stroke of the lead after the second round of the Truist Championship. The 35-year-old Englishman made five birdies and a bogey to match his Thursday score and move just behind South Korea&#8217;s Sungjae Im, who carded a steady two-under round of 69 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42144,"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\/42143"}],"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=42143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42145,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42143\/revisions\/42145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}