{"id":243774,"date":"2026-05-17T04:21:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T04:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/rory-mcilroy-roars-into-contention-at-pga-championship-following-excellent-third-round\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T04:21:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T04:21:15","slug":"rory-mcilroy-roars-into-contention-at-pga-championship-following-excellent-third-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/rory-mcilroy-roars-into-contention-at-pga-championship-following-excellent-third-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy roars into contention at PGA Championship following excellent third round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Rory McIlroy played his way into contention at the 2026 PGA Championship with a remarkable third round.<\/p>\n<p>After entering Saturday in 30th place at one-over par, the career grand-slam winner skyrocketed up the leaderboard by shooting a 66. At one point, he moved into a tie for first at four-under before the 36-hole leaders even teed off.<\/p>\n<p>It was a masterful performance from one of the world&#8217;s best golfers, putting him in a prime position to add another major to his sterling resume.<\/p>\n<h2>Big third round puts Rory McIlroy in striking distance of seventh career Grand Slam victory<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/golf\/articles\/rory_mcilroy_roars_into_contention_at_pga_championship_following_excellent_third_round\/s1_13132_43850872\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rory McIlroy played his way into contention at the 2026 PGA Championship with a remarkable third round. After entering Saturday in 30th place at one-over par, the career grand-slam winner skyrocketed up the leaderboard by shooting a 66. At one point, he moved into a tie for first at four-under before the 36-hole leaders even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":243775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-243774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}