Players Championship groups for early rounds include defending champion, world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, No. 2 Rory McIlroy and No. 3 Xander Schauffele.

Scoring improved by nearly three strokes in the second round of the 2025 Arnold Palmer Invitational with many of the world's best taking advantage, including 36-hole leader Shane Lowry.

-8 S Lowry (Ire); -6 W Clark (US); -5 C Conners (Can), C Morikawa (US); -4 R Henley (US), R McIlroy (NI), J Day (Aus) Selected others: -3 J Thomas (US), K Bradley (US ...

Shane Lowry hit a five-under-par 67 to establish ... Further down the leaderboard Austria's Sepp Straka recovered from 77 in the first round to make the cut with ease with a six-under 66.

His compatriot Keegan Bradley had recorded the lowest front-nine score in course history at seven-under 29, but finished on 64 - tied for fifth with Austria's Sepp Straka. Ireland's Shane Lowry ...

(AP) Sepp Straka is going back to Georgia in a few ... tapped in for birdie in the rain on the final hole and ended up beating Shane Lowry by one shot to become the first Austrian winner in ...