{"id":802456,"date":"2026-07-15T00:55:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T00:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/802456\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T00:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T00:55:15","slug":"heroes-classic-the-154th-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/802456\/","title":{"rendered":"Heroes Classic | The 154th Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        The format<\/p>\n<p>The Heroes Classic will be contested in teams of three players over the 1st, 2nd and 9th holes at Royal Birkdale.<\/p>\n<p>A Texas Scramble format will be used with a scoring incentive to ensure each participant gets to hit as many shots as possible, creating team unity and enabling friendly competition.<\/p>\n<p>Each hole is scored using the following Stableford system:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Birdie &#8211; 3 points<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Par &#8211; 2 points<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Bogey &#8211; 1 point<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Double Bogey or worse &#8211; 0 points<\/p>\n<p>If a team scores a birdie on a hole and each player has contributed one of the shots used to complete the hole, the team receives 1 bonus Stableford point for that hole. This can be awarded on multiple holes.\n<\/p>\n<p>In the event of a tie, teams will compete in a sudden-death putt-off on the 9th green.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The format The Heroes Classic will be contested in teams of three players over the 1st, 2nd and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":802457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-802456","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\/802456","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=802456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}