{"id":5762,"date":"2023-02-11T14:27:10","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T14:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/phoenix-open-scottie-scheffler-leads-by-two-shots-as-play-suspended-in-second-round\/"},"modified":"2023-02-11T14:27:11","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T14:27:11","slug":"phoenix-open-scottie-scheffler-leads-by-two-shots-as-play-suspended-in-second-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/phoenix-open-scottie-scheffler-leads-by-two-shots-as-play-suspended-in-second-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix Open: Scottie Scheffler leads by two shots as play suspended in second round"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Spain’s Jon Rahm, who is two shots off the lead in a tie for second place, started the year with two consecutive victories<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<\/thead>\n\n\n\n\n
-10<\/strong> S Scheffler (US); <\/span>-8<\/strong> J Rahm (Spa), *A Hadwin (Can); <\/span>-7<\/strong> W Clark (US), *S-J Im (Kor); <\/span>-6<\/strong> J Day (Aus), *J Vegas (Ven), *S Ryder (US), *N Taylor (Can), *X Schauffele (US)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Selected<\/strong>: <\/span>-5<\/strong> R Fowler (US), *J Spieth (US); <\/span>-3<\/strong> J Thomas (US), *A Rai (Eng), *R McIlroy (NI), *T Hatton (Eng), S Power (Ire); <\/span>+1<\/strong> *M Fitzpatrick (Eng); <\/span>+2<\/strong> *T Fleetwood (Eng), *M Wallace (Eng)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
*player is still to finish his second round<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Defending champion Scottie Scheffler leads the Phoenix Open by two shots on 10 under after his second round.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The American, 26, hit a bogey-free seven-under-par 64, but many players were left out on the course after play was suspended because of bad light.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Spain’s Jon Rahm is tied for second with Canada’s Adam Hadwin on eight under after a 66 at TPC Scottsdale.<\/span><\/p>\n

World number one Rory McIlroy managed just 13 holes, but picked up five shots on the day to reach three under. <\/span><\/p>\n

Both Scheffler and Rahm, 28, have the chance to move above Northern Ireland’s McIlroy to top the world rankings with victory in this tournament.<\/span><\/p>\n

Scheffler followed up his maiden win on the PGA Tour in last year’s Phoenix Open with <\/span>victory in the 2022 Masters<\/span><\/a>, while Rahm has started the year in fine form following consecutive victories in the Sentry Tournament of Champions and <\/span>The American Express<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

McIlroy, meanwhile, has recovered from an opening-day 73 to move back into contention. <\/span><\/p>\n

The 33-year-old is aiming for a third consecutive victory on the PGA Tour following wins in the Tour Championship in August and the CJ Cup in October. He also <\/span>won two weeks ago in Dubai<\/span><\/a> on the DP World Tour in his first tournament of the year. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Spain’s Jon Rahm, who is two shots off the lead in a tie for second place, started the year with two consecutive victories -10 S Scheffler (US); -8 J Rahm (Spa), *A Hadwin (Can); -7 W Clark (US), *S-J Im (Kor); -6 J Day (Aus), *J Vegas (Ven), *S Ryder (US), *N Taylor (Can), *X […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5763,"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\/5762"}],"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=5762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5764,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5762\/revisions\/5764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}