{"id":45998,"date":"2026-04-18T03:02:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T07:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/18\/fitzpatricks-impressive-63-points-leads-heritage\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T03:02:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T07:02:31","slug":"fitzpatricks-impressive-63-points-leads-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/18\/fitzpatricks-impressive-63-points-leads-heritage\/","title":{"rendered":"Fitzpatrick&#8217;s impressive 63 points leads Heritage."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>RBC Heritage, Round 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>-14<\/strong> M. Fitzpatrick (English); <strong>-13<\/strong> V Hovland (Noll); <strong>-10<\/strong> H English (United States); <strong>-9<\/strong> S. Straka (out), L. Aberg (Sweden), P. Cantlay (USA)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Selected: -8<\/strong> R. McIntyre (Scotland), R. Fowler (USA). <strong>-7<\/strong> S Scheffler (USA), C Morikawa (USA); <strong>-5<\/strong> X Schauffele (USA); <strong>-3<\/strong> S. Lowry (Ire). <strong>-1<\/strong> J. Spieth (USA)<\/p>\n<p>advertisement<\/p>\n<p><strong>complete leaderboard<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former U.S. Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick completed a tough second round at South Carolina&#8217;s RBC Heritage with a bogey-free 63 to take a one-shot lead over Viktor Hovland.<\/p>\n<p>On a day of sweltering heat and unpredictable winds, the Briton played a perfect round to move to 14 under, helped by some luck on the par-three 14th.<\/p>\n<p>After pulling his tee shot toward a tree, Fitzpatrick&#8217;s ball hit the cart path and bounced back onto the green, only to be saved from falling into the water by a well-placed sprinkler head.<\/p>\n<p>He gave it his all and held the ensuing 30-foot putt for an unlikely birdie.<\/p>\n<p>advertisement<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, it was a blessing in disguise. There&#8217;s no two ways about it,&#8221; Fitzpatrick said. \u201cSometimes you need it within a week, so it\u2019s nice to have it, but it\u2019s even nicer to be able to take advantage of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 2023 champion made two more birdies in the final three holes to move into the lead.<\/p>\n<p>Norway&#8217;s Hovland remained the closest challenger, although he continued to chase with a nice birdie on the 17th.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t say I striped today, but at least I felt like I put the ball in front of me, and that\u2019s what I\u2019m trying to do on this golf course,\u201d Hovland said.<\/p>\n<p>World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler played alongside Fitzpatrick and shot a characteristically disciplined 67. Despite hitting every fairway, the American struggled to convert some birdie opportunities and was only seven shots behind.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan Spieth was one to struggle in the tricky conditions, posting a frustrating 72 with three double bogeys, while Akshay Bhatia shot a 63 with 11 birdies in the round to move up to -6.<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RBC Heritage, Round 2 -14 M. Fitzpatrick (English); -13 V Hovland (Noll); -10 H English (United States); -9 S. Straka (out), L. Aberg (Sweden), P. Cantlay (USA) Selected: -8 R. McIntyre (Scotland), R. Fowler (USA). -7 S Scheffler (USA), C Morikawa (USA); -5 X Schauffele (USA); -3 S. Lowry (Ire). -1 J. Spieth (USA) advertisement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[17],"class_list":{"0":"post-45998","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\/45998","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=45998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}