A past Open champion has withdrawn from this 154th edition.<\/p>\n
Louis Oosthuizen announced Monday afternoon that he has pulled out of the field at Royal Birkdale because of a back injury. He also won\u2019t play next week\u2019s LIV Golf U.K. event in Rocester, England.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot the update I was hoping to share,\u201d said Oosthuizen, who won the 2010 Open at St. Andrews. \u201c\u2026 It\u2019s incredibly disappointing to miss two events I always look forward to, but my priority now is to focus on my recovery and make sure I\u2019m fully fit before returning to competition.\u201d<\/p>\n
Oosthuizen was replaced in the field by Aldrich Potgieter.<\/p>\n
Matti Schmid and Andrew Wilson are now the first and second alternates, respectively.<\/p>\n
Schmid might\u2019ve been playing attention to Sam Burns, whose status for this week\u2019s Open was up in the air due to his wife, Caroline, being due with the couple\u2019s second child in mid-July. Burns\u2019 mother, Beth, even told The Athletic at last month\u2019s U.S. Open that her son wouldn\u2019t travel for the PGA Tour\u2019s fortnight in the U.K.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe won\u2019t go to Europe,\u201d Beth Burns said. \u201cThis is his last major. They\u2019re going to go home and have a baby.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, Burns remains in the field and was practicing at Birkdale on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A past Open champion has withdrawn from this 154th edition. Louis Oosthuizen announced Monday afternoon that he has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-800446","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\/800446","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=800446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}