Another new initiative will see the likes of former Birkdale Open winners Jordan Spieth and Padraig Harrington play alongside local favourite Tommy Fleetwood and fellow Englishman Justin Rose in a ‘Heroes Classic’ on the Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The three-hole competition will involve teams of three playing a Texas scramble format which will give all players the opportunity to hit shots.<\/p>\n
“If we can create a memory that inspires someone to be involved in the game and dream big, that is a wonderful thing,” said Fleetwood, who is from Southport.<\/p>\n
Rose, who shot to fame as a teenage amateur when he finished joint fourth at Birkdale in 1998, added: “The Open in 1998 was a special moment and brings back so many fond memories, especially winning the Silver Medal as a young amateur.<\/p>\n
“To return now, in a different stage of my career, is something I’m excited about.”<\/p>\n
Reigning AIG Women’s Open champion Miyu Yamashita and G4D Champion Brendan Lawlor are also taking part in the Heroes Classic, alongside high-profile figures from sport and entertainment, including R&A ambassadors Bryan Habana, a South Africa rugby great, and Kathryn Newton, the American actress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another new initiative will see the likes of former Birkdale Open winners Jordan Spieth and Padraig Harrington play…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-633696","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\/633696","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=633696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}