{"id":531423,"date":"2026-03-12T12:55:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T12:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/531423\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T12:55:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T12:55:22","slug":"david-ford-gets-in-players-field-after-ryan-fox-illness-withdraws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/531423\/","title":{"rendered":"David Ford gets in Players field after Ryan Fox (illness) withdraws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PONTE VEDRA, Fla. \u2013 Ryan Fox withdrew before the start of the Players Championship because of an illness.<\/p>\n<p>David Ford got into the prestigious field as the first alternate. Ford will tee off at 1:18 p.m. ET alongside Keegan Bradley and Chris Kirk at TPC Sawgrass.<\/p>\n<p>Fox had enjoyed a solid start to the season after a multiple-win campaign in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Ford, meanwhile, who finished first in the 2025 PGA Tour University\u2019s college rankings, is coming off a tie for 16th last week at the opposite-field Puerto Rico Open, his second top-20 of the young season.<\/p>\n<p>John Parry is now the next man up if any other player in the 123-man field were to withdraw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PONTE VEDRA, Fla. \u2013 Ryan Fox withdrew before the start of the Players Championship because of an illness.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-531423","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\/531423","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=531423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}