{"id":43550,"date":"2026-02-21T05:17:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T10:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/mcilroy-hunts-genesis-leaders-penge-and-bridgeman\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T05:17:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T10:17:17","slug":"mcilroy-hunts-genesis-leaders-penge-and-bridgeman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/mcilroy-hunts-genesis-leaders-penge-and-bridgeman\/","title":{"rendered":"McIlroy hunts Genesis leaders Penge and Bridgeman"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Genesis Invitational – Round 2 Leaderboard<\/strong><\/p>\n

-12<\/strong> M Penge (UK), J Bridgman (USA); -11<\/strong> R. McIlroy (NI); -9<\/strong> A Scott (Australia), X Schauffele (USA). -8<\/strong> MW Lee (Australia), P Glaserman (USA). -7<\/strong> T Fleetwood (UK), W Clark (USA). Mr. K. Kitayama (USA). M. Fitzpatrick (English)<\/p>\n

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Others selected:<\/strong> -6<\/strong> A Lai (English); -5 <\/strong>J. Spaeth (USA); -2<\/strong> R. Fowler (USA); level<\/strong> R. McIntyre (Scotland), S. Scheffler (USA). +1<\/strong> S. Lowry (Ire). (Miscut)+3<\/strong> J. Rose (English)<\/p>\n

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Rory McIlroy is one shot behind leaders Marco Penge and Jacob Bridgman at the halfway stage of the Genesis Invitational.<\/strong><\/p>\n

England’s Penge made five birdies in the last seven holes and posted an 8-under 64, moving his total to 12 under after the second round in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

Penge’s 27 holes on Friday were all the more remarkable because he had to complete nine holes from a weather-delayed first round before advancing to the second round.<\/p>\n

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Northern Ireland’s McIlroy shot a 7-under 65 to move to 11 under and said the Riviera Country Club course was more forgiving after struggling to finish tied for 14th at Pebble Beach last week.<\/p>\n

“There’s no Pacific Ocean around this golf course to hit into, so that helps,” said McIlroy, who is ranked second in the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m still hitting some loose shots, but the course setup is looking a little bit better.<\/p>\n

“But I hit it well, controlled my distance well most of the time, and holed some nice putts from within 8 feet when I needed to for par.”<\/p>\n

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Penge, 27, revealed after his round that his wife recently moved to Florida and is expecting their second child next week.<\/p>\n

“The last four weeks have been extremely difficult for me and my family,” he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe is in the United States alone, without family or friends, is pregnant, and is caring for a one-and-a-half-year-old child at the same time.<\/p>\n

“It was kind of a gamble that I was just going to compete and leave her alone.”<\/p>\n

American Bridgeman later joined Penge with a 64 of his own to top the leaderboard.<\/p>\n

World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler hit a 7-foot par putt on the 18th hole to reach level par.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was nice to get out on a fresh green this morning and hole some putts and do what I need to do for the weekend,\u201d Scheffler added.<\/p>\n

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Genesis Invitational – Round 2 Leaderboard -12 M Penge (UK), J Bridgman (USA); -11 R. McIlroy (NI); -9 A Scott (Australia), X Schauffele (USA). -8 MW Lee (Australia), P Glaserman (USA). -7 T Fleetwood (UK), W Clark (USA). Mr. K. Kitayama (USA). M. Fitzpatrick (English) advertisement Others selected: -6 A Lai (English); -5 J. Spaeth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[17],"class_list":{"0":"post-43550","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\/43550","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=43550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}