{"id":51233,"date":"2026-08-16T14:16:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T14:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/51233\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T14:16:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T14:16:18","slug":"robert-macintyre-struggles-in-first-round-of-st-jude-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/51233\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert MacIntyre struggles in first round of St. Jude Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow along for <a data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/golf\/pga\/2026\/08\/14\/st-jude-championship-tee-times-friday-round-2-pairings\/91279101007\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">live leaderboard updates and highlights<\/a> from Round 2 of the FedEx St. Jude Championship.<\/p>\n<p>The <a data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/golf\/pga\/2026\/08\/13\/st-jude-championship-tee-times-thursday-round-1-pairings\/91274125007\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">2026 St. Jude Championship<\/a>, the opening event of the <a data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/golf\/pga\/fedex-cup\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">FedEx Cup<\/a> playoffs, teed off its first round at the TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tennessee. While several contenders made strong starts, others, including Robert MacIntyre, will need to mount a significant comeback during Friday\u2019s Round 2 to keep their playoff hopes alive.<\/p>\n<p>MacIntyre, currently ranked No. 36 in the FedEx Cup standings with 1,191 points, faced a challenging start at TPC Southwind. His opening nine holes were marred by three bogeys and two double bogeys, putting him well behind the leaders early in his campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a rough front nine, MacIntyre seemed to turn his luck around on the back stretch. After a double bogey on the par-4 15th, he responded with a birdie on the 16th, his only under-par hole of the round. A bogey on the 17th quickly erased any momentum, leaving him frustrated as he finished out the day with a double bogey on the 18th hole.<\/p>\n<p>More: <a data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/golf\/pga\/2026\/08\/13\/st-jude-championship-tee-times-thursday-round-1-pairings\/91274125007\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">FedEx St. Jude Championship live leaderboard: Scores, tee times, highlights from Round 1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After the first round, MacIntyre finds himself near the bottom of the leaderboard in 64th place, carding a disappointing 12-over-par 82.<\/p>\n<p>With three more rounds to play and only the top 50 advancing to the BMW Championship, he faces an uphill battle to keep his postseason run going.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: <a data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/golf\/2026\/08\/13\/robert-macintyre-first-round-st-jude-championship\/91289586007\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Robert MacIntyre struggles in first round of St. Jude Championship<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow along for live leaderboard updates and highlights from Round 2 of the FedEx St. Jude Championship. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[1562],"class_list":["post-51233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-robert-macintyre","tag-robert-macintyre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51233","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=51233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}