{"id":24974,"date":"2026-01-24T10:53:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T10:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/american-express-teenager-blades-brown-and-scottie-scheffler-share-second-round-lead\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T10:53:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T10:53:46","slug":"american-express-teenager-blades-brown-and-scottie-scheffler-share-second-round-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/american-express-teenager-blades-brown-and-scottie-scheffler-share-second-round-lead\/","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 \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/golf\/articles\/c8d059r3p58o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/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, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24974","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\/24974","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=24974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24976,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24974\/revisions\/24976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}