{"id":851288,"date":"2026-08-11T09:54:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T09:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/851288\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T09:54:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T09:54:22","slug":"golf-ball-becomes-fish-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/851288\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf ball becomes fish food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Charl Schwartzel encountered an unusual hazard during the final round of LIV Golf Bedminster on Sunday when a fish appeared to swallow his golf ball after it rolled into a pond beside the seventh green.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">The South African&#8217;s tee shot at the 134-yard, par-three hole landed on the green before rolling off the putting surface and into the water. TV footage then showed a fish grabbing the ball from beneath the surface and swimming away with it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Commentators were left stunned by the unusual incident, with one saying: &#8220;I have never seen that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">LIV Golf also shared footage of the incident on social media, asking: &#8220;Have you ever seen anything like this?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Schwartzel was forced to take a one-stroke penalty and eventually made bogey on the hole. He finished the tournament two-over par, while Chilean Joaquin Niemann claimed the title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">The incident prompted plenty of amusement among fans on social media, with some joking that golf balls could now be used as bait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charl Schwartzel encountered an unusual hazard during the final round of LIV Golf Bedminster on Sunday when a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-851288","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\/851288","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=851288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}