Golf: McIlroy seizes two-shot lead

PALM BEACH GARDENS: Rory McIlroy moved within one round of seizing the world number one ranking as he claimed a two-shot lead at the US PGA Tour’s Honda Classic. The 22-year-old from Northern Ireland, who can supplant England’s Luke Donald atop the rankings with a win, capped a four-under 66 on the par-70 course with a birdie from a bunker at the par-five 18th. McIlroy’s 54-hole total of 11-under 199 left him two strokes ahead of Americans Harris English and Tom Gillis. Meanwhile, former world number one Tiger Woods carded a one-under 69 and was nine off the pace.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 5^th, 2012.