{"id":9937,"date":"2026-03-07T00:43:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T00:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=9937"},"modified":"2026-03-07T00:43:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T00:43:58","slug":"arnold-palmer-invitational-daniel-berger-leads-by-five-as-rory-mcilroy-rallies-in-bay-hill-second-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=9937","title":{"rendered":"Arnold Palmer Invitational: Daniel Berger leads by five as Rory McIlroy rallies in Bay Hill second round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following a level-par opening round, Northern Irishman McIlroy will begin the third round tied ninth after he improved to four under.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McIlroy remained even as he reached the back nine but birdied four of the next seven holes to post 68 and climb up the leaderboard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">World number one Scottie Scheffler appeared set to match his opening round 70 but the American slipped to three under after bogeying the 18th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tommy Fleetwood rallied with three birdies on the back nine to get back to one over par and inside the weekend cut-off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Berger has suffered a run of injuries, including a back issue which sidelined him for 18 months and fractured a finger at the BMW Championship in August last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He put himself on course for a long-awaited victory &#8211; and the \u00a33m top prize &#8211; after a clean run on the back nine included three birdies to strengthen his position.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I actually feel like I played better [today], the course was a little tougher,&#8221; Berger said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m looking forward to the next couple of days and seeing the challenge they bring.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a level-par opening round, Northern Irishman McIlroy will begin the third round tied ninth after he improved to four under. McIlroy remained even as he reached the back nine but birdied four of the next seven holes to post 68 and climb up the leaderboard. World number one Scottie Scheffler appeared set to match<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9937","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\/9937","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=9937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}