{"id":412286,"date":"2023-02-11T21:16:26","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T02:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=412286"},"modified":"2023-02-11T21:18:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T02:18:03","slug":"american-scheffler-holds-lead-mcilroys-top-spot-under-threat","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/american-scheffler-holds-lead-mcilroys-top-spot-under-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"American Scheffler holds lead, McIlroy&#8217;s top spot under threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defending champion Scottie Scheffler held onto the lead Saturday at the WM Phoenix Open in a bid to regain the No. 1 spot in the world.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It&#39;s packed at the top <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WMPhoenixOpen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@WMPhoenixOpen<\/a> \ud83d\udd25 <\/p>\n<p>1. Scottie Scheffler (-13)<br \/>T2. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonRahmpga?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@JonRahmPGA<\/a> (-11)<br \/>T2. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ntaylorgolf59?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@NTaylorGolf59<\/a><br \/>T4. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JordanSpieth?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@JordanSpieth<\/a> (-10)<br \/>T4. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ahadwingolf?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@AHadwinGolf<\/a><br \/>T6. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TyrrellHatton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@TyrrellHatton<\/a> (-9)<br \/>T6. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RickieFowler?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@RickieFowler<\/a><br \/>T6. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JDayGolf?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@JDayGolf<\/a><br \/>T6. Sungjae Im<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PGATOUR\/status\/1624579027431305221?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The second-ranked Scheffler shot a 3-under 68 in front of some 200,000 fans at TPC Scottsdale to get to 13 under, two strokes ahead of third-ranked Spain&#8217;s Jon Rahm and Canada&#8217;s Nick Taylor.<\/p>\n<p>Scheffler would take the No. 1 spot from Northern Ireland&#8217;s Rory McIlroy \u2014 tied for 28th at 3 under after a 70 \u2014 with a victory, as long as McIlroy finishes worse than solo third.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Scheffler beat Patrick Cantlay here in a playoff for his first PGA Tour title. Scheffler added victories in the Arnold Palmer Invitational, WGC-Match Play and Masters and was the PGA Tour&#8217;s player of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Rahm also had a 68, holing a curling 40-footer for birdie on the stadium 16th for his third birdie in four holes. Taylor shot 67.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old Texan Scheffler also could get to No. 1 by finishing solo second if inconsistent McIlroy is 36th or worse and Rahm doesn&#8217;t win.<\/p>\n<p>Rahm, the former Arizona State star, would go to No. 1 with a victory if McIlroy finishes worse than a three-way tie for second, or by finishing solo second if McIlroy finishes worse than solo 47th and Scheffler doesn\u2019t win.<\/p>\n<p>American Jordan Spieth and Canada&#8217;s Adam Hadwin were 10 under.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defending champion Scottie Scheffler held onto the lead Saturday at the WM Phoenix Open in a bid to regain the No. 1 spot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":412287,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17435,17415,16988,16985,17434],"news_category":[16713],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Scheffler would take the No. 1 spot fwith a victory, as long as McIlroy finishes worse than solo third","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\/412286"}],"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=412286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/412286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412286"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=412286"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=412286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}