{"id":885022,"date":"2026-09-06T02:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T02:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/885022\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T02:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T02:34:14","slug":"gbi-captain-robertson-says-walker-cup-opener-is-best-day-in-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/885022\/","title":{"rendered":"GB&#038;I Captain Robertson says Walker Cup opener is best day in golf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sheils Donegan, who was in the thick of his own contest with Tyler Watts, a match he won 3&amp;2, said the roars from the moment Grehan\u2019s winning putt dropped could be heard reverberating around the course.\u00a0<br \/>\nAfter trailing early in the match, the Scot turned things around in the back nine and says he was buoyed by the noise from up ahead.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cYou can really tell when there is something going on ahead of you,\u201d he said.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cWe\u2019re walking down 13 and you just hear the biggest roar of your life over on 18. I go to my caddie, \u2018I think Stuart just won that\u2019.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cI think it is amazing to hear those cheers from across the golf course. It just gives you that little extra boost of energy when you might be a little bit down, or you just want a little bit extra momentum.\u201d\u00a0<br \/>\nAfter Grehan claimed the first singles point of the afternoon for GB&amp;I, the visitors bounced back quickly and secured three points in succession thanks to Fang winning by one hole over Jack Whaley, Jay Leng Jr defeating Tyler Weaver 2&amp;1 and William Jennings also edging out Connor Graham by one hole to take the lead in the match for the first time at 4\u00bd-3\u00bd.\u00a0<br \/>\nStewart Hagestad extended his remarkable singles record in the Walker Cup to notch up his eighth win out of nine singles matches by overcoming Ben Bolton 2&amp;1.\u00a0<br \/>\nDespite the two-point deficit, GB&amp;I rallied to secure the final three points of the session and lead the match overall at 6\u00bd-5\u00bd. After Sheils Donegan won his point, Eliot Baker followed up with a victory by the same margin against Josiah Gilbert before Luke Poulter rounded proceedings off by beating Miles Russell 2&amp;1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sheils Donegan, who was in the thick of his own contest with Tyler Watts, a match he won&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":885023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-885022","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\/885022","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=885022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}