{"id":29246,"date":"2025-11-28T01:01:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T06:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/28\/brett-rankin-takes-lead-midway-through-second-round-at-royal-queensland-australian-pga\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T01:01:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T06:01:48","slug":"brett-rankin-takes-lead-midway-through-second-round-at-royal-queensland-australian-pga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/28\/brett-rankin-takes-lead-midway-through-second-round-at-royal-queensland-australian-pga\/","title":{"rendered":"Brett Rankin takes lead midway through second round at Royal Queensland Australian PGA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>BRISBANE, Australia (AP) \u2014 Australian Brett Rankin jumped from second to first midway through the second round of the Australian PGA Championship on Friday, taking a one-shot lead from second place.<\/p>\n<p>Rankin, who finished the first round earlier in the day due to Thursday&#8217;s thunderstorm interruption, shot a 2-under 69 on Friday for a two-round total of 9-under 133.<\/p>\n<p>advertisement<\/p>\n<p>French golfer Tom Vaillon shot a 64 on Friday to take an early share of second place. Spain&#8217;s Sebastian Garcia, who led Rankin by one stroke at the end of the first round, shot a 72 on Friday to tie for fifth place.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Leishman, who shot a 68, was also in the group with fellow Australian Cameron Davis (67) at 7 under, two strokes behind Rankin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been a great few days,&#8221; Davis said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think one side of the draw was easier than the other. So we&#8217;ll see how that affects the course today as it&#8217;s going to dry out a little bit. It was really wet this morning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Marco Penge, who won three times on this year&#8217;s European Tour and is the tournament&#8217;s highest-ranked 30th, shot a 70 in the opening round and started late on Friday, as did Australians Adam Scott and Minu Lee.<\/p>\n<p>advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The tournament is jointly sanctioned by Australia&#8217;s PGA Tour and the European Tour, which begins its 2025-26 season just two weeks after Rory McIlroy won the Race to Dubai title.<\/p>\n<p>McIlroy will be in the spotlight at next week&#8217;s Australian Open, which begins December 4 at Royal Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP Golf: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/golf<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRISBANE, Australia (AP) \u2014 Australian Brett Rankin jumped from second to first midway through the second round of the Australian PGA Championship on Friday, taking a one-shot lead from second place. Rankin, who finished the first round earlier in the day due to Thursday&#8217;s thunderstorm interruption, shot a 2-under 69 on Friday for a two-round [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[17],"class_list":{"0":"post-29246","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\/29246","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=29246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}