{"id":8460,"date":"2026-02-22T06:40:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T01:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/22\/bridgeman-leads-genesis-by-six-from-mcilroy\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T06:40:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T01:10:02","slug":"bridgeman-leads-genesis-by-six-from-mcilroy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/22\/bridgeman-leads-genesis-by-six-from-mcilroy\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridgeman leads Genesis by six from McIlroy"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Published28 minutes ago<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Genesis Invitational &#8211; round three leaderboard<\/p>\n<p>-19 J Bridgeman (US);  -13 R McIlroy (NI); -12 A Potgieter (SA); -11 A Rai (Eng), X Schauffele (US); -10 K Kitayama (US); -9 P Greyserman (US), M Penge (Eng) -8 J Knapp (US), R Fox (Aus), T Fleetwood (Eng), A Scott (Aus)<\/p>\n<p>Selected others: -6 J Speith (US), M Fitzpatrick (Eng); -5 Scheffler (US), R MacIntyre; -3 S Lowry (Ire); -1 R Fowler (US)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/sport\/golf\/uspga-tour\/leaderboard\">Full leaderboard<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rory McIlroy lies six shots off the lead after Jacob Bridgeman&#x27;s stunning seven-under-par 64 cemented his place at the top of leaderboard after round three of the Genesis Invitational.<\/p>\n<p>Northern Ireland&#x27;s McIlroy started the day one shot behind America&#x27;s Bridgeman but carded a two-under-par 69 to lie in second place on 13 under in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Bridgeman, who also shot a 64 in round two, holed seven birdies and one eagle, on the 11th hole, in a fine display as he took control at the Riviera Country Club.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old, ranked 52 in the world, is enjoying a good start to the year having had two top-10 finishes in his opening four events, including last week&#x27;s eighth place at Pebble Beach.<\/p>\n<p>England&#x27;s Marco Penge, who started the day tied for the lead with Bridgeman, shot a three-over-par 74 as he slipped to joint-seventh on the leaderboard.<\/p>\n<p>Penge&#x27;s compatriot Aaron Rai is fourth and eight shots off the lead on 11 under after carding a 66, with South Africa&#x27;s Aldrich Potgieter one shot ahead of him in third.<\/p>\n<p>World number one Scottie Scheffler, who holed a seven-foot putt on Friday to make it to the weekend, is joint 22nd on five under after shooting a 66.<\/p>\n<h2>Related topics<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/golf\">Golf<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bridgeman leads Genesis by six from McIlroyImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Rory McIlroy holed three birdies in the third roundPublished28 minutes agoThe Genesis Invitational &#8211; round three lea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-decor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}