{"id":506877,"date":"2025-10-17T13:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T13:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/506877\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T13:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T13:22:10","slug":"dp-world-india-championship-tommy-fleetwood-surges-into-lead-as-rory-mcilroy-rallies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/506877\/","title":{"rendered":"DP World India Championship: Tommy Fleetwood surges into lead as Rory McIlroy rallies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Tommy Fleetwood fired a superb eight-under round of 64 to take the halfway lead at the DP World India Championship, while Rory McIlroy finished strongly to stay in touch. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England&#8217;s Fleetwood carded eight birdies in a bogey-free round to lead former Open champions Shane Lowry and Brian Harman by a shot at Delhi Golf Club. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Overnight leader Lowry &#8211; playing with European Ryder Cup team-mate Fleetwood &#8211; made four birdies and a bogey in a 69 while Harman carded a 65 to surge up the leaderboard. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">World number five Fleetwood is chasing his eighth DP World Tour title after claiming the PGA Tour&#8217;s FedEx Cup in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I hit it in the fairway a lot and gave myself some chances with irons,&#8221; said Fleetwood.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s easy talking about how many things you did well when you shot eight under, but it was a really good round of golf.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tommy Fleetwood fired a superb eight-under round of 64 to take the halfway lead at the DP World&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4106],"tags":[2826,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-506877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115389724997053647","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}