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LONDON \u2014 Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy struggled in a third round left unfinished as play was suspended because of fog at the Scottish Open on Saturday.<\/p>\n
McIlroy, who completed a career Grand Slam of major titles at the US Masters in April, had been among the leaders overnight but fell to six-under as fog disrupted the entire day’s play.<\/p>\n
The world number two was out-of-sorts after a long delay. Three bogeys in his eight completed holes left him trailing England’s Matt Fitzpatrick and American Michael Thorbjornsen who were both on 11-under par when play was suspended for the night.<\/p>\n
Fitzpatrick made a strong start with four birdies in seven holes lifting him to 12-under-par.<\/p>\n
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By signing up with an email address, I acknowledge that I have read and agree to the Terms of Service<\/a> and Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n A bogey immediately followed on eight, which was to be the Englishman’s final hole of the day.<\/p>\n Thorbjornsen hit five birdies in 13 holes.<\/p>\n Johnny Keefer was the clubhouse leader at 10-under. He was tied with fellow Americans Wyndham Clark, Chris Gotterup and Kevin Roy, Australian Min Woo Lee and English overnight co-leader Jordan Smith, who all had holes still to complete.<\/p>\n Keefer had a single dropped shot and seven birdies in his 64.<\/p>\n US Open champion Clark made four birdies in his 15 holes, with defending champion Gotterup chalking up three in his ten.<\/p>\n The event at the Renaissance Club in North Berwick, east of Edinburgh is played on a links \u2014 or coastal course \u2014 as is the British Open.<\/p>\n The 154th edition of golf’s oldest major championship takes place next week at Royal Birkdale near Liverpool.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 LONDON \u2014 Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy struggled in a third round left unfinished as play was suspended…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[2635,1479,14568,14567,6113,2185,2184,2198,3353,1399,2156,2191,12857,1723,519,1578,14565,14566,424],"class_list":["post-35443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-matt-fitzpatrick","tag-british-open","tag-chris-gotterup","tag-edinburgh","tag-golf-major-championship","tag-grand-slam","tag-johnny-keefer","tag-jordan-smith","tag-kevin-roy","tag-liverpool","tag-matt-fitzpatrick","tag-michael-thorbjornsen","tag-min-woo-lee","tag-north-berwick","tag-renaissance-club","tag-royal-birkdale","tag-scottish-open","tag-seo-meta-keywords-rory-mcilroy","tag-us-masters","tag-wyndham-clark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}