{"id":146330,"date":"2025-09-15T19:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T19:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/146330\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T19:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T19:14:08","slug":"record-numbers-compete-in-historic-st-andrews-town-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/146330\/","title":{"rendered":"Record numbers compete in historic St Andrews Town Match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A record number of golfers enjoyed playing in the historic 100th staging of the Town Match in St Andrews on Saturday.\u00a0<br \/>\nKnown as the largest annual one day amateur golf match in the world, 916 players competed over the Old, New, Jubilee and Strathtyrum Courses for the anniversary event \u2013 the highest ever number to tee up.\u00a0<br \/>\nFirst played in 1913, the Town Match involves a team from The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews playing against a side from the town of St Andrews in a foursomes handicap match play format.\u00a0<br \/>\nOn Saturday, 229 matches took place across the four St Andrews Links courses with the first tee off at 6.40am and play continuing until dusk in a celebration of the town\u2019s rich golf heritage. The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews ran out winners by the score of 122\u00bd to 106\u00bd with Ian Pattinson, Captain of the Club, presented with the victorious silverware \u2013 the Bobby Jones Casket \u2013 in front of the Clubhouse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A record number of golfers enjoyed playing in the historic 100th staging of the Town Match in St&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-146330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}