{"id":947410,"date":"2026-05-09T02:57:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T02:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/947410\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T02:57:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T02:57:15","slug":"truist-championship-tommy-fleetwood-a-shot-behind-leader-sungjae-im-with-rory-mcilroy-in-contention-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/947410\/","title":{"rendered":"Truist Championship: Tommy Fleetwood a shot behind leader Sungjae Im with Rory McIlroy in contention"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tommy Fleetwood shot a four-under round of 67 to put himself within a stroke of the lead after the second round of the Truist Championship.<\/b><\/p>\n

The 35-year-old Englishman made five birdies and a bogey to match his Thursday score and move just behind South Korea’s Sungjae Im, who carded a steady two-under round of 69 to end the day at nine under.<\/p>\n

Fleetwood’s compatriot Alex Fitzpatrick and American Justin Thomas are a further shot back at seven under.<\/p>\n

Fitzpatrick is nine strokes ahead of older brother and world number three Matt Fitzpatrick, who is two over for the tournament.<\/p>\n

Masters champion Rory McIlroy followed up a consistent first-round outing featuring 17 consecutive pars<\/a> with a four-under round of 67.<\/p>\n

In between bogeys at the second and 18th, Northern Ireland’s McIlroy banked six birdies to keep himself in contention on five under at Quail Hollow in North Carolina.<\/p>\n

American Rickie Fowler’s nine birdies helped him surge up the leaderboard with a second round of eight-under 63 to move level with McIlroy.<\/p>\n

Fowler’s score was the best of the day by four strokes, and an 11-shot improvement on his opening round.<\/p>\n

First-round leader Matt McCarty trended in the opposite direction, following Thursday’s 63 with a 74 to join Fowler and McIlroy in a tie for eighth through 36 holes.<\/p>\n

The no-cut tournament is the last event before the US PGA Championship takes place at the Aronimink Golf Club in Pennsylvania from 14-17 May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tommy Fleetwood shot a four-under round of 67 to put himself within a stroke of the lead after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":947077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-947410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116542376924743940","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947410","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=947410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/947077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}