{"id":872349,"date":"2026-08-26T17:22:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T17:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/872349\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T17:22:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T17:22:27","slug":"matt-gogel-pga-tour-champions-player-suspended-for-betting-on-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/872349\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Gogel, PGA Tour Champions player, suspended for betting on golf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">PGA Tour Champions player Matt Gogel was handed a six-month suspension Wednesday for placing bets on PGA Tour competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a statement, the PGA Tour said Gogel did not bet on tournaments in which he was a participant, but the mere act violated guidelines of the tour&#8217;s integrity program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Gogel cooperated throughout the process, the tour said. His suspension began Sunday and will run through Feb. 22, 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Gogel said in a statement posted to X that he unknowingly placed &#8220;small recreational wagers on golf&#8221; in 2024 and 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">&#8220;I want to be clear that these wagers were not placed on regular PGA Tour events, PGA Tour Champions events or any tournament in which I participated,&#8221; Gogel said in his statement. &#8220;I would never knowingly violate the integrity of the game of golf. I made an honest mistake and I look forward to playing in 2027 on the PGA Tour Champions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Gogel, 55, finished tied for 30th last weekend in the Rogers Charity Classic. He has twice finished in the top five on the Champions Tour this season, including a tie for second in the ISPS HANDA Senior Open in July at Gleneagles, and has $2.6 million in winnings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PGA Tour Champions player Matt Gogel was handed a six-month suspension Wednesday for placing bets on PGA Tour&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-872349","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\/872349","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=872349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}