{"id":46181,"date":"2026-08-22T04:16:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T04:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/bmw-championship-rory-mcilroy-falls-off-pace-after-tough-second-round\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T04:16:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T04:16:06","slug":"bmw-championship-rory-mcilroy-falls-off-pace-after-tough-second-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/bmw-championship-rory-mcilroy-falls-off-pace-after-tough-second-round\/","title":{"rendered":"BMW Championship: Rory McIlroy falls off pace after tough second round"},"content":{"rendered":"


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BMW Championship – second round leaderboard<\/b><\/p>\n

-12<\/b> W Clark (US), -11<\/b> G Woodland (US), -10<\/b> JJ Spaun (US), -9<\/b> S J Im (Kor), C Gotterup (US), -8<\/b> P Cantlay (US), M Thorbjornsen (US), -7 <\/b>C Morikawa (US), R McIlroy (NI), R Henley (US), M McNealy (US)<\/p>\n

Selected others: -4<\/b> J Rose (Eng), -3 <\/b>RMacIntyre (Sco), M Fitzpatrick (Eng), -2 <\/b>A Fitzpatrick (Eng), T Fleetwood (Eng), -1 <\/b>A Rai (Eng)<\/p>\n

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Overnight leader Rory McIlroy said he would be heading to the driving range after falling away from the lead at the BMW Championship in St Louis.<\/p>\n

The Masters champion began with a fine six-under-par in the opening round, but followed that with a one under-par 69 on Friday.<\/p>\n

It means he is five shots behind Wyndham Clark, with whom he shared the lead after the first round.<\/p>\n

Clark had a flawless round to finish on 12 under and leads the contest by one stroke over Gary Woodland. <\/p>\n

The 32-year-old is the only player in the competition without a bogey in the first two rounds.<\/p>\n

“I feel like conditions were pretty similar to yesterday,” McIlroy told the Golf Channel after his round.<\/p>\n

“The wind was coming out of a different direction, but still very scorable. The greens are soft, maybe the ball’s got a little bit more run out on the fairways, but you’ll still see guys shooting pretty good scores today.<\/p>\n

“I didn’t quite hit it as good as I did yesterday, so probably an afternoon on the range for me.<\/p>\n

“I’m proud of how I just hung in there. A lot of good par putts on the back nine, especially. The only bogey I had was with a mistake on the par-five eighth hole, but I made some really good par saves coming in and that sort of kept me in it.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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BMW Championship – second round leaderboard -12 W Clark (US), -11 G Woodland (US), -10 JJ Spaun (US), -9 S J Im (Kor), C Gotterup (US), -8 P Cantlay (US), M Thorbjornsen (US), -7 C Morikawa (US), R McIlroy (NI), R Henley (US), M McNealy (US) Selected others: -4 J Rose (Eng), -3 RMacIntyre (Sco), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46182,"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\/46181"}],"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=46181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46183,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46181\/revisions\/46183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}