{"id":848477,"date":"2026-08-06T18:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T18:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/848477\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T18:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T18:36:10","slug":"medicine-hats-whitson-sits-second-at-2026-canadian-all-abilities-golf-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/848477\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicine Hat\u2019s Whitson sits second at 2026 Canadian All Abilities Golf Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/c39e77e4-c165-42b1-a43a-55bb9d36032e-1-scaled.jpg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>(Image Credit: Photozek07\/Dreamstime)<\/p>\n<p>By Jesse Gill<\/p>\n<p>Sports<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tAug 6, 2026 | 10:32 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Medicine Hat\u2019s Derek Whitson is competing at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfgenius.com\/pages\/12428212482793851253?utm_source=Golf+Canada&amp;utm_campaign=21dc1cf8a8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_06_12_03_16_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_-57b583abdb-585277381&amp;mc_cid=21dc1cf8a8&amp;mc_eid=7c74498bcf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">2026 Canadian All Abilities Golf Championship<\/a> at Hylands Golf Club in Ottawa from Aug. 5-7.<\/p>\n<p>After day one, Whitson sat tied for second place overall after shooting a two-over-par 74 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Matching his score was Josh Williams from Tavistock, Ont., last year\u2019s champ.<\/p>\n<p>He was three shots off leader Josh Hunke, who carded a one-under-par 71 in his opening round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Image Credit: Photozek07\/Dreamstime) By Jesse Gill Sports Aug 6, 2026 | 10:32 AM Medicine Hat\u2019s Derek Whitson is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-848477","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\/848477","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=848477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}