{"id":799397,"date":"2026-07-14T09:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T09:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/799397\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T09:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T09:09:10","slug":"british-open-matt-fitzpatrick-blames-betting-for-golf-fans-bad-behaviour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/799397\/","title":{"rendered":"British Open: Matt Fitzpatrick blames betting for golf fans\u2019 bad behaviour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI would say every golfer that\u2019s played a professional tournament has had a message of abuse from someone that is related to gambling,\u201d the 31-year-old said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cFor me, it\u2019s definitely becoming a problem. It would be very easy to influence a bet, whether it\u2019s you\u2019re shouting on someone\u2019s backswing, shouting on a putting stroke. It\u2019s really easy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cObviously, that is really hard to monitor, but it is definitely an issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">Fitzpatrick accepts noisy crowds are now a part of modern golf but insisted there had to be limits on how spectators behaved themselves on the course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI want an atmosphere at a golf tournament,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve said a million times, I love football, I love the atmosphere of a football match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cRyder Cup, playing away from home, succeeding in those atmospheres \u2013 there\u2019s not a much better feeling. I\u2019m all for an atmosphere, but obviously I don\u2019t want it to cross a line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">\u2013 AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI would say every golfer that\u2019s played a professional tournament has had a message of abuse from someone&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,2350,38024,23182,36042,615,375289,35393,5224,1635,8544,580,755,47019,29259,176305,5120,16804,51393,19306,178543,85,23931,1720],"class_list":["post-799397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bad","tag-behaviour","tag-behind","tag-believes","tag-betting","tag-blames","tag-british","tag-english","tag-fans","tag-fitzpatrick","tag-for","tag-golf","tag-growing","tag-increasingly","tag-leading","tag-matt","tag-open","tag-popularity","tag-rise","tag-spectator","tag-sports","tag-tournaments","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799397","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=799397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}