{"id":950157,"date":"2026-11-02T18:48:15","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T18:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/950157\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T18:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T18:48:15","slug":"rory-mcilroy-scottie-scheffler-bring-back-optum-golf-channel-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/950157\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy, Scottie Scheffler bring back Optum Golf Channel Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler will once again head up a pair of teams for December\u2019s Optum Golf Channel Games, but they\u2019ll do so with different lineups for the second iteration. McIlroy for this year\u2019s event, slated for Dec. 16, will be joined by Matt Fitzpatrick, Si Woo Kim and Haotong Li. Scheffler\u2019s team will be made up of Chris Gotterup, Michael Brennan and Jackson Koivun. Of that group, Li is the only returning player from 2025. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">Participants last year included Shane Lowry, Keegan Bradley, Luke Donald, Sam Burns and Luke Clanton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">The event once again will be played at Trump National Golf Club Jupiter and air in primetime on Golf Channel and USA Network. Two challenges from last year &#8212; a Team Relay and 14-Club Challenge &#8212; will be back in 2026, while other new ones will be introduced. Mark Loomis and Chris Maguire will lead production of the Golf Channel Games. Broadcast talent for the event is expected to be announced in the coming weeks (SBJ).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler will once again head up a pair of teams for December\u2019s Optum Golf&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":950158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,11775,85],"class_list":["post-950157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-golf-channel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950157","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=950157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}