{"id":427709,"date":"2026-01-23T09:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T09:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/427709\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T09:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T09:03:09","slug":"scottie-scheffler-one-off-lead-on-return-at-american-expressin-la-quinta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/427709\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottie Scheffler one off lead on return at American Expressin La Quinta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">World number one Scottie Scheffler shot a nine-under 63 in the first round of the American Express in California on his first PGA Tour appearance of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 29-year-old has not played this year and is yet to win the American Express tournament, which boasts a prize of \u00a31,236,000 ($1.656m) for the winner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scheffler sits one off the lead in La Quinta held jointly by Min Woo Lee of Australia and the United States&#8217; Pierceson Coody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He is joined on nine under by a host of players including Scotland&#8217;s Robert MacIntyre and former US PGA champion Jason Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Unusually, the field play across three different courses before the cut on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scheffler birdied five of his first six holes while Coody hit successive birdies on his way to shooting 29 on the back nine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World number one Scottie Scheffler shot a nine-under 63 in the first round of the American Express in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-427709","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\/427709","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=427709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}