{"id":10427,"date":"2025-02-09T16:54:33","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T16:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/pga-tour-thomas-detry-extends-lead-to-fice-shots-at-phoenix-open\/"},"modified":"2025-02-09T16:54:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T16:54:33","slug":"pga-tour-thomas-detry-extends-lead-to-fice-shots-at-phoenix-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/pga-tour-thomas-detry-extends-lead-to-fice-shots-at-phoenix-open\/","title":{"rendered":"PGA Tour: Thomas Detry extends lead to fice shots at Phoenix Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Belgium&#8217;s Thomas Detry is in position to claim the first PGA Tour title of his career by extending his lead to five shots at the Phoenix Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 32-year-old, who has finished runner-up twice in 65 events, started the day with a two-shot lead in Scottsdale, Arizona.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Seven birdies, including five on the first nine holes, saw him go round in 65 to reach 18 under par overall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Getting off to such a good start was kind of the dream,&#8221; said Detry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On potentially winning the title, he added: &#8220;It&#8217;s OK to think about it, but then try to come back in the present. I think that will be the key [for Sunday].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rasmus Hojgaard, Daniel Berger, Jordan Spieth and Michael Kim are all tied second on 13 under.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scotland&#8217;s Robert MacIntyre matched Detry&#8217;s round of 65 and is seven shots off the lead, with world number one Scottie Scheffler a further shot behind.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/golf\/articles\/czxkqgn2ry5o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belgium&#8217;s Thomas Detry is in position to claim the first PGA Tour title of his career by extending his lead to five shots at the Phoenix Open. The 32-year-old, who has finished runner-up twice in 65 events, started the day with a two-shot lead in Scottsdale, Arizona. Seven birdies, including five on the first nine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10429,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10427\/revisions\/10429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}