{"id":536024,"date":"2026-03-14T14:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T14:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/536024\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T14:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T14:18:12","slug":"players-championship-delays-saturday-opening-to-public-after-nearby-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/536024\/","title":{"rendered":"Players Championship delays Saturday opening to public after nearby shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. \u2014 The gates to The Players Championship did not open until 9 a.m. ET because of \u201coperational considerations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2026\/03\/14\/two-killed-in-palm-valley-road-walgreens-shooting-in-ponte-vedre-suspect-still-at-large\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">According to News 4 Jax<\/a>, two people were shot and killed at a Walgreens about a mile from TPC Sawgrass. The suspect, identified by authorities as Christian Barrios, was tracked onto TPC Sawgrass by canine units.<\/p>\n<p>Barrios made contact with PGA Tour staff and picked up a radio, according to the report. He was later captured in Nassau County around 8 a.m. ET, following a police chase.<\/p>\n<p>Third-round tee times remain unchanged with Seamus Power, who is playing by himself, teeing off at 8:15 a.m. and on-course hospitality opening at 11 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. \u2014 The gates to The Players Championship did not open until 9 a.m. ET&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-536024","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\/536024","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=536024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}