{"id":789417,"date":"2026-07-09T15:07:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T15:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/789417\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T15:07:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T15:07:18","slug":"sherri-steinhauer-on-womens-golf-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/789417\/","title":{"rendered":"Sherri Steinhauer on women&#8217;s golf growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEverything is progressing in the right direction,\u201d said Sherri, \u201cand I\u2019m sure it will continue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe standard of the players is simply amazing, prize money keeps growing, and the courses on the roster are the best of the best.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt really is a magnificent golf event.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sherri won the AIG Women\u2019s Open for the first time at Royal Lytham &amp; St Annes in 1998 and successfully defended her title at Woburn 12 months later.<\/p>\n<p>She lifted the trophy for the third time in 2006, once again in Lytham.<\/p>\n<p>And while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aigwomensopen.com\/players\/karrie-webb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Karrie Webb<\/a> is the only golfer to match Sherri\u2019s amazing feat, the American great believes the standard of women\u2019s golf today is on a totally different level to when she was at the top of her game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cEverything is progressing in the right direction,\u201d said Sherri, \u201cand I\u2019m sure it will continue. \u201cThe standard of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-789417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}