{"id":475532,"date":"2023-01-08T02:56:14","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T02:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=475532"},"modified":"2023-01-08T10:26:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T10:26:08","slug":"collin-morikawa-opens-massive-6-shot-lead-at-toc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/collin-morikawa-opens-massive-6-shot-lead-at-toc","title":{"rendered":"Collin Morikawa opens massive 6-shot lead at TOC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Collin Morikawa continued his assault on the All-Star field, firing an 8-under-par 65 to open a nearly insurmountable six-shot lead at the Tournament of Champions on Saturday in Kapalua, Hawaii. Morikawa sits at 24 under through 54 holes. The six-shot lead matches the largest 54-hole margin of the season and the largest at the event since 1999. Morikawa carded an eagle on the par-5 fifth hole and never looked back, adding six more birdies &#8211; including four of his last five holes. He turned in another bogey-free round, the only player in the field to do so. Three players sit tied for second at 18 under &#8211; J.J. Spaun (third-round 69), Scottie Scheffler (69) and Englishman Matt Fitzpatrick (66). Tom Kim (68) and Jon Rahm (67) are seven shots back in a tie for fifth. Max Homa fired a 10-under 63 for the low round of the day, vaulting 20 spots up the leaderboard and into a tie for seventh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collin Morikawa continued his assault on the All-Star field, firing an 8-under-par 65 to open a nearly insurmountable six-shot lead<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[129,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-golf","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}