{"id":428298,"date":"2023-03-03T23:30:09","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T04:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=428298"},"modified":"2023-03-03T23:30:09","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T04:30:09","slug":"kitayama-leads-after-second-round-at-arnold-palmer-invitational","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/kitayama-leads-after-second-round-at-arnold-palmer-invitational\/","title":{"rendered":"Kitayama leads after second round at Arnold Palmer Invitational"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"qa-introduction gel-pica-bold\" role=\"introduction\" data-reactid=\".24l5fpd1yac.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2\"><span data-reactid=\".24l5fpd1yac.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.0\">American Kurt Kitayama shot a second-round four-under-par 68 to take a two-shot lead at the Arnold Palmer Invitational after overnight leader Jon Rahm slipped down the leaderboard.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Stars showing out at Bay Hill \ud83d\ude0d <\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s packed at the top heading into the weekend <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/APinv?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@APInv<\/a>.<\/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\/Q3l1l2UwlV\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Q3l1l2UwlV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PGATOUR\/status\/1631843421232013317?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div data-reactid=\".24l5fpd1yac.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-3\">\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".24l5fpd1yac.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-3.0\"><span data-reactid=\".24l5fpd1yac.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-3.0.0\">World number one Rahm had a two-stroke advantage after round one but shot a four-over-par 76 in rough conditions which saw winds of up to 30mph.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Round 2 Leaderboard <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/APinv?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@APInv<\/a> \u26f3\ufe0f <\/p>\n<p>1. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kurt_Kitayama?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Kurt_Kitayama<\/a> (-9)<br \/>2. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JordanSpieth?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@JordanSpieth<\/a> (-7)<br \/>T3. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/XSchauffele?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@XSchauffele<\/a> (-6)<br \/>T3. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/coreconn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@CoreConn<\/a><br \/>T5. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JustinThomas34?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@JustinThomas34<\/a> (-5)<br \/>T5. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/patrick_cantlay?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Patrick_Cantlay<\/a><br \/>T5. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattFitz94?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@MattFitz94<\/a><br \/>T5. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davisriley68?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@DavisRiley68<\/a><br \/>T9. Scottie Scheffler (-4)<br \/>T9. Adam Scott<br \/>T9. Cameron Young<br \/>T9. Ludvig Aberg<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PGATOUR\/status\/1631842092677836800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" data-reactid=\".24l5fpd1yac.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-3.1\">\n<div id=\"bbccom_mpu_1_2_3\" class=\"bbccom_slot bbccom_standard_slot mpu_first_slot\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-reactid=\".24l5fpd1yac.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-3.1.$body-0\">\n<div class=\"bbccom_advert\" data-reactid=\".24l5fpd1yac.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-3.1.$body-0.0\">&#8220;It&#8217;s always a fun challenge keeping yourself in the moment,&#8221; Kitayama, who had five birdies to grab the lead by two shots from Jordan Spieth, said.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".24l5fpd1yac.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-6\"><span data-reactid=\".24l5fpd1yac.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-6.0\">&#8220;I feel like when you get conditions like this it&#8217;s easy to kind of let things get away from you &#8211; for me it&#8217;s just keeping myself focused the entire way.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".24l5fpd1yac.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-7\"><span data-reactid=\".24l5fpd1yac.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-7.0\">The event also saw a hole in one from Norway&#8217;s Viktor Hovland, who nailed his 183-yard shot on the seventh hole, eventually finishing on two under.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".24l5fpd1yac.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-8\"><span data-reactid=\".24l5fpd1yac.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-8.0\">Chris Kirk &#8211; who won the Honda Classic last week &#8211; was another who fell victim to the weather, dropping down the field to two under after being tied for second overnight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".24l5fpd1yac.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-9\"><span data-reactid=\".24l5fpd1yac.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-9.0\">England&#8217;s Matt Fitzpatrick is the best-placed British interest, sitting on five under, with compatriot Aaron Rai and Norther Ireland&#8217;s Rory McIlroy three shots further back.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".24l5fpd1yac.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-10\"><span data-reactid=\".24l5fpd1yac.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-10.0\">The players are competing for a purse of $20m (\u00a317m), $3.6m of which goes to the winner.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Kurt Kitayama shot a second-round four-under-par 68 to take a two-shot lead at the Arnold Palmer Invitational after overnight leader Jon Rahm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":428299,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17435,16988],"news_category":[16713],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Overnight leader Jon Rahm slipped down the leaderboard","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\/428298"}],"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=428298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/428298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428298"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=428298"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=428298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}