{"id":73613,"date":"2026-05-16T12:56:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T17:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/16\/us-pga-championship-2026-golf-rory-mcilroy-among-early-movers-in-third-round-live\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T12:56:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T17:56:53","slug":"us-pga-championship-2026-golf-rory-mcilroy-among-early-movers-in-third-round-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/16\/us-pga-championship-2026-golf-rory-mcilroy-among-early-movers-in-third-round-live\/","title":{"rendered":"US PGA Championship 2026 golf: Rory McIlroy among early movers in third round \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\ufe0f Updates from the third round at Aronimink Golf Club<br \/>\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pgachampionship.com\/leaderboard\">Official live scoreboard<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/sport.theguardian.com\">Follow on Bluesky<\/a> | <a href=\"mailto:scott.murray@theguardian.com\">Mail Scott<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Xander Schauffele fancies reclaiming the crown he won in 2024.<\/strong> He turned in 32, and now he\u2019s just made his fifth birdie of the day at 11. He joins Rory as the only currently active member of the group at -3.<\/p>\n<p>Justin Rose has rolled in two big putts on 18 already this week. Par savers both. And it\u2019s three pars at the closing hole now, though he\u2019s not so chuffed about this one, a 15-foot birdie attempt stopping just short. He cocks his head back in frustration, though it surely won\u2019t sting for long, because that\u2019s set the seal on a 65, and at -2 he\u2019s right in the mix. He joins Kristoffer Reitan and Chris Kirk in the clubhouse lead.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2026\/may\/16\/us-pga-championship-day-three-golf-live\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufe0f Updates from the third round at Aronimink Golf Club\ufe0f Official live scoreboard | Follow on Bluesky | Mail Scott Xander Schauffele fancies reclaiming the crown he won in 2024. He turned in 32, and now he\u2019s just made his fifth birdie of the day at 11. He joins Rory as the only currently active &#8230; <a title=\"US PGA Championship 2026 golf: Rory McIlroy among early movers in third round \u2013 live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/16\/us-pga-championship-2026-golf-rory-mcilroy-among-early-movers-in-third-round-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US PGA Championship 2026 golf: Rory McIlroy among early movers in third round \u2013 live\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}