{"id":31328,"date":"2025-07-29T07:43:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T07:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/31328\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T07:43:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T07:43:12","slug":"keeler-defends-title-at-portage-mens-open-portageonline-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/31328\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeler defends title at Portage Men\u2019s Open &#8211; PortageOnline.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rivalry may have drawn the headlines heading in, but in the end, there was no doubt; Kenny Keeler has successfully defended his title at the 2025 Stride Credit Union Men\u2019s Open.<\/p>\n<p>Keeler followed up his dramatic win last year with another clutch performance, shooting 69 and 71 for a total of 140 to go back-to-back and take the 2025 championship at the Portage Golf Club.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Back-to-back, so that feels pretty good to verify that win last year,&#8221; said Keeler.\u00a0&#8220;I made it pretty comfortable myself the back nine, fairways, greens, made pars.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rounding out the top five were Clark Bolton (147), Quentin Neff (148), Carson Inman (150), and Noah Spence (150).<\/p>\n<p>Keeler previously said his goal was to \u201cnot shoot myself out of it early and just enjoy it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He did just that and made history in the process.<\/p>\n<p>*Note: The article has been updated to reflect the two-day totals. The previous article was based solely on Round 1 scores. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; with files from Tylor Baer<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/portageonline.com\/features\/daily-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up<\/a>\u00a0to get the latest local news headlines delivered directly to your inbox every afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Send your news tips, story ideas, pictures, and videos to news@portageonline.com.<\/p>\n<p>PortageOnline encourages you to get your news directly from your trusted source by bookmarking this page and downloading the PortageOnline app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The rivalry may have drawn the headlines heading in, but in the end, there was no doubt; Kenny&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-31328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31328","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=31328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}