{"id":6709,"date":"2026-01-23T23:59:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T23:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=6709"},"modified":"2026-01-23T23:59:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T23:59:52","slug":"american-express-teenager-blades-brown-and-scottie-scheffler-share-second-round-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=6709","title":{"rendered":"American Express: Teenager Blades Brown and Scottie Scheffler share second-round lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A stunning 12-under 60 gave teenager Blades Brown a share of the lead with world number one Scottie Scheffler after the second round of the American Express in California.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 18-year-old&#8217;s eye-catching 10 birdies and an eagle put him on 17 under alongside his fellow American.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On his first PGA Tour appearance of the season, Scheffler followed up his opening round of 63 with an eight-under 64.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 29-year-old made three birdies on the front nine at in La Quinta, before another five followed for a second consecutive bogey-free round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scheffler has yet to win the American Express tournament, which boasts a prize of \u00a31,236,000 ($1.656m) for the champion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">South Korea&#8217;s Si-Woo Kim is a shot behind the leaders after a round of 65 left him at 16 under, while compatriot Seong-Hyeon Kim and American Matt McCarty are a further shot back.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A stunning 12-under 60 gave teenager Blades Brown a share of the lead with world number one Scottie Scheffler after the second round of the American Express in California. The 18-year-old&#8217;s eye-catching 10 birdies and an eagle put him on 17 under alongside his fellow American. On his first PGA Tour appearance of the season,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}