{"id":412251,"date":"2023-02-11T02:01:58","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T07:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=412251"},"modified":"2023-02-11T02:01:58","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T07:01:58","slug":"defending-champion-scottie-scheffler-leads-wm-phoenix-open","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/defending-champion-scottie-scheffler-leads-wm-phoenix-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Defending champion Scottie Scheffler leads WM Phoenix Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Defending champion Scottie Scheffler took the lead into the weekend in the WM Phoenix Open, with local favorite Jon Rahm right behind at TPC Scottsdale.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Leaderboard after Friday <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WMPhoenixOpen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@WMPhoenixOpen<\/a> \u26f3\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>1. Scottie Scheffler (-10)<br \/>T2. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonRahmpga?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@JonRahmPGA<\/a> (-8)<br \/>T2. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ahadwingolf?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@AHadwinGolf<\/a> (Thru 10)<br \/>T4. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Wyndham_Clark?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Wyndham_Clark<\/a> (-7)<br \/>T4. Sungjae Im<br \/>T6. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JDayGolf?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@JDayGolf<\/a> (-6)<br \/>T6. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JhonattanVegas?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@JhonattanVegas<\/a> <br \/>T6. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SamRyderSU?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@SamRyderSU<\/a> <br \/>T6. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/XSchauffele?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@XSchauffele<\/a> <br \/>T6. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ntaylorgolf59?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@NTaylorGolf59<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PGATOUR\/status\/1624227973502042118?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The second-ranked Scheffler played 25 holes Friday, completing a 3-under 68 in the first round and shooting a bogey-free 64 in the second to get to 10 under.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He had a two-stroke lead over Rahm and Adam Hadwin when play was suspended because of darkness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would probably have to agree [that Rory and Rahm have separated themselves],&#8221; said Scheffler. &#8220;It&#8217;s not like I&#8217;m sitting there saying, &#8216;I&#8217;m playing better than those guys right now.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They have been winning tournaments, and I&#8217;ve been kind of on the outside looking in. So no, I haven&#8217;t really been paying attention to it too much.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Top of the leaderboard heading into the weekend <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WMPhoenixOpen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@WMPhoenixOpen<\/a> \ud83c\udfcc\ufe0f\u200d\u2642\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>(Presented by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ROLEX?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ROLEX<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Zm86EhynH7\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Zm86EhynH7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PGATOUR\/status\/1624253139284008961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Rahm, the former Arizona\u00a0State star ranked No. 3, also returned early to finish the first round.<\/p>\n<p>He shot 68-66 to possibly set up a Super Bowl weekend showdown with Scheffler for the No. 1 ranking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defending champion Scottie Scheffler took the lead into the weekend in the WM Phoenix Open, with local favorite Jon Rahm right behind at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":412252,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17435,17434,17417],"news_category":[16713],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Arizona State graduate Jon Rahm is hot on his tail just two shots back","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/412251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/412251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412251"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=412251"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=412251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}