{"id":34010,"date":"2026-08-23T10:20:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T10:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/bmw-championship-rory-mcilroy-in-joint-second-as-wyndham-clark-leads\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T10:20:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T10:20:23","slug":"bmw-championship-rory-mcilroy-in-joint-second-as-wyndham-clark-leads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/bmw-championship-rory-mcilroy-in-joint-second-as-wyndham-clark-leads\/","title":{"rendered":"BMW Championship: Rory McIlroy in joint second as Wyndham Clark leads"},"content":{"rendered":"


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BMW Championship – third-round leaderboard<\/b><\/p>\n

-17<\/b> W Clark (US); -12<\/b> R McIlroy (NI), P Cantlay (US); -11<\/b> C Gotterup (US), G Woodland (US); -10<\/b> C Morikawa (US); -9 <\/b>S J Im (Kor); -8<\/b> M McNealy (US), R Hisatsune (Jpn), E Cole (US), JJ Spaun (US)<\/p>\n

Selected others: -5 <\/b>R MacIntyre (Sco); -4 <\/b>A Rai (Eng), M Fitzpatrick (Eng); -1 <\/b>J Rose (Eng), <\/b>A Fitzpatrick (Eng); +2 <\/b>T Fleetwood (Eng)<\/p>\n

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Rory McIlroy shot a five-under 65 to move to joint-second after three rounds of the BMW Championship, but said it will take a “heroic effort” to chase down leader Wyndham Clark.<\/b><\/p>\n

Northern Irishman McIlroy improved from a second-round 69 that cost him his first-day lead, birdieing four of the last six holes to move to 12 under.<\/p>\n

Patrick Cantlay is level with McIlroy after carding a 66, while fellow American Clark extended his lead at Bellerive Country Club in St Louis to five shots with a 65.<\/p>\n

“I needed to be patient the last three days, because my game has been good in parts, but then it has been a struggle in other ways,” McIlroy said.<\/p>\n

“I didn’t hit my first fairway today until the 10th hole.<\/p>\n

“Playing this golf course from the rough isn’t fun, but I hung in there, my short game saved me a couple of times and I got some momentum coming in.<\/p>\n

“I am in a good spot in terms of where I am at on the leaderboard, but it’s going to take a heroic effort from one of us to catch Wyndham.”<\/p>\n

Clark double-bogeyed the opening hole but was superb thereafter, birdieing twice and then hitting an eagle on the eighth to go into the turn on two under.<\/p>\n

He birdied four of the next five holes before bogeying the last.<\/p>\n

Americans Chris Gotterup and Gary Woodland are on 11 under, with compatriot Collin Morikawa on 10 under and South Korea’s Im Sung-Jae on nine under.<\/p>\n

Scotland’s Robert MacIntyre and American world number one Scottie Scheffler carded 68s to finish in a group of eight on five under, with England’s Aaron Rai and Matthew Fitzpatrick a shot behind.<\/p>\n

Justin Rose shot 73 to leave him on one under, while fellow Englishman Tommy Fleetwood’s 74 left him on two over.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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BMW Championship – third-round leaderboard -17 W Clark (US); -12 R McIlroy (NI), P Cantlay (US); -11 C Gotterup (US), G Woodland (US); -10 C Morikawa (US); -9 S J Im (Kor); -8 M McNealy (US), R Hisatsune (Jpn), E Cole (US), JJ Spaun (US) Selected others: -5 R MacIntyre (Sco); -4 A Rai (Eng), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34010","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\/34010","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=34010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34012,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34010\/revisions\/34012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}