{"id":25022,"date":"2025-10-14T22:14:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T02:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/10\/14\/marco-penzi-builds-lead-at-spanish-open-hopes-are-fading-for-jon-rahm\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T22:14:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T02:14:17","slug":"marco-penzi-builds-lead-at-spanish-open-hopes-are-fading-for-jon-rahm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/10\/14\/marco-penzi-builds-lead-at-spanish-open-hopes-are-fading-for-jon-rahm\/","title":{"rendered":"Marco Penzi builds lead at Spanish Open. Hopes are fading for Jon Rahm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>MADRID &#8212; Marco Penge made eight birdies on Saturday and had a chance to win the Spanish Open, while local favorite Jon Rahm&#8217;s hopes of winning a record fourth title all but ended.<\/p>\n<p>Penge shot a 7-under 64 in the third round for a tournament total of 16 under. The leader of the day started with a bogey on three holes, but he continued to chase after that, finishing under par on eight of the 10 holes and separating himself from the pack.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whatever the result is, it&#8217;s going to be a great experience, a great memory for me,&#8221; Penge said. &#8220;Tomorrow doesn&#8217;t define anything. It&#8217;s just another day, an 18-hole round of golf.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His playing partner Joel Gerbach (Switzerland) is the closest challenger with a four-shot difference. Daniel Brown and Patrick Reed will be in the back five, followed by Tom McKibbin in the back six.<\/p>\n<p>Rahm will need a big comeback after posting a 71 on Sunday that included a double bogey. He is tied for 28th place with a 12-stroke difference. The Ryder Cup winner is looking to overtake Seve Ballesteros as the most successful golfer on the tournament since the European Tour was created in 1972.<\/p>\n<p>Penge, 27, got stuck behind a tree on the second hole and broke his wedge.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I knew it was going to break,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I picked a club that I didn&#8217;t think I would need for the rest of the way. I just tried not to hit my hand on a tree.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Penji started the day with a one-stroke lead. This year, he also won the Denmark Golf Championship and the Hainan Classic, and will aim for his third tour victory.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MADRID &#8212; Marco Penge made eight birdies on Saturday and had a chance to win the Spanish Open, while local favorite Jon Rahm&#8217;s hopes of winning a record fourth title all but ended. Penge shot a 7-under 64 in the third round for a tournament total of 16 under. The leader of the day started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[17],"class_list":{"0":"post-25022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}