{"id":4829,"date":"2024-09-20T04:53:03","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T04:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/bmw-pga-championship-rory-mcilroy-two-shots-off-leader-matthew-baldwin-at-wentworth\/"},"modified":"2024-09-20T04:53:03","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T04:53:03","slug":"bmw-pga-championship-rory-mcilroy-two-shots-off-leader-matthew-baldwin-at-wentworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/bmw-pga-championship-rory-mcilroy-two-shots-off-leader-matthew-baldwin-at-wentworth\/","title":{"rendered":"BMW PGA Championship: Rory McIlroy two shots off leader Matthew Baldwin at Wentworth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Rory McIlroy finished the first round of the BMW PGA Championship two shots behind Englishman Matthew Baldwin despite a day full of calamity at Wentworth in Surrey.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On the 12th hole, McIlroy&#8217;s eight-iron clubhead <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/golf\/articles\/c4glpjng5nzo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">went flying off mid-swing,<\/a> but the former world number one still ended up putting the ball within 10 feet of the pin on his way to a birdie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Northern Irishman also had to hit a putt left-handed, saw his tee shot on the 17th bounce out of the trees and went out of bounds on his approach to the 18th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 2014 champion and last week&#8217;s Irish Open runner-up finished with a double-bogey to finish on five under par.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/golf\/articles\/cjr32jn8d9wo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rory McIlroy finished the first round of the BMW PGA Championship two shots behind Englishman Matthew Baldwin despite a day full of calamity at Wentworth in Surrey. On the 12th hole, McIlroy&#8217;s eight-iron clubhead went flying off mid-swing, but the former world number one still ended up putting the ball within 10 feet of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4829","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\/4829","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=4829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4831,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4829\/revisions\/4831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}