Rai outshines McIlroy to take share of PGA Championship lead alongside Lagergren

[p]The US PGA champion shot a six-under-par 66 to sit alongside Sweden's [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/lagergren-joakim/tW0rmeCG/"]Joakim Lagergren[/a] at the top of the leaderboard at Wentworth.[/p][p][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/mcilroy-rory/djwanksN/"]McIlroy[/a], who shot 60 in Wednesday’s pro-am, started with another blitz of birdies to get to five under through 10 but fell back to three under with three bogeys in his final five holes.[/p][p][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/rai-aaron/46TU9vUh/"]Rai[/a] was the pick of the bunch from the marquee group, also including British Open winner [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/fox-ryan/bR9ztYXn/"]Ryan Fox[/a], as he picked up six birdies alongside just one bogey at 16.[/p][embed guid="6046ef0b-eba1-4f5a-af56-3f71dcb06032" url="https://x.com/BMWPGA/status/2100653831705006195" social-type="twitter" /][p]"Really good start," said the Englishman. [b]"I felt like I got into the round fast and got a couple of birdies early on and continued to just play well throughout the round and keep the momentum going when I was out of position."[/b][/p][p][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/aberg-ludvig/67ZVNhdN/"]Ludvig Aberg[/a], Adam Scott, [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/gerard-ryan/Wh01wlMn/"]Ryan Gerard[/a] and Nacho Elvira are in the group of four just one shot off the lead.[/p][p]Fox is among the pack two shots off the lead alongside European Ryder Cup winners Bob MacIntyre and Viktor Hovland.[/p][p]Fresh from heroics on home soil at the Irish Open last week, Shane Lowry carded a 71.[/p][p]Jon Rahm had a nightmare start as a six-over-par round of 78 leaves the Spaniard battling to make the cut.[/p]