{"id":440283,"date":"2023-07-21T14:07:17","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T18:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=440283"},"modified":"2023-07-21T14:07:17","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T18:07:17","slug":"harman-with-big-lead-after-day-two-at-royal-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/harman-with-big-lead-after-day-two-at-royal-liverpool\/","title":{"rendered":"Harman with big lead after day two at Royal Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Harman is in the lead at Royal Liverpool after stunning display, which saw the 36-year-old hit six-under-par 65, putting him five clear of everybody else.<\/p>\n<p>The American holed four birdies on the trot from the second before sinking a 15-foot eagle putt on the last to move to 10 under par.<\/p>\n<p>Rory Mcllroy is in second place with six-under par 70. Tommy Fleetwood, who is the overnight leader will resume in second place on five under.<\/p>\n<p>Left-hander Harman, who started one shot off the lead after Thursday&#8217;s 67, drained putts of 19, 25 and 17 feet on the second, third and fourth holes to go two ahead and a further birdie followed on the par-five fifth.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old&#8217;s performance was truly scintillating as his total of 132 shots match the record of Tiger Woods in 2006 and Mcllroy in 2014.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Brian Harman is on a historic pace at The Open. \ud83d\udc4f\ud83d\udd25 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8mRtDsh7JS\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/8mRtDsh7JS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; theScore Bet (@theScoreBet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theScoreBet\/status\/1682413875306835968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 21, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve had a hot putter the past couple of days so I&#8217;ll try to ride it through the weekend,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There were several holes where it could have gone either way on the back nine. I&#8217;m fortunate to finish where I did and I&#8217;m really pleased with it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Harman is in the lead at Royal Liverpool after stunning display, which saw the 36-year-old hit six-under-par 65, putting him five clear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":440284,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[20534,17493],"news_category":[16713],"gn_keywords":[20535,18616],"acf":{"announce":"The American was absolutely on fire and none of the favorites could match him","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\/440283"}],"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=440283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/440283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440283"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=440283"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=440283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}