{"id":208434,"date":"2025-12-24T10:49:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T10:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/208434\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T10:49:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T10:49:06","slug":"hall-of-famer-ozaki-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/208434\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall of Famer Ozaki dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s most successful player, Masashi &#8216;Jumbo\u2019 Ozaki, has died at the age of 78.<\/p>\n<p>Ozaki, who was known for his power off the tee, began his sporting career as a baseball pitcher but switched to golf and won a record 94 titles on the Japan Golf Tour.<\/p>\n<p>He was ranked as high as world number five in 1996 and boasted top-10 finishes at the Masters, US Open and the Open, while he was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>A statement on jgto.org said Ozaki had died of colon cancer, with chairman Yutaka Morohoshi adding: &#8220;The golf world has lost a truly great man.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s most successful player, Masashi &#8216;Jumbo\u2019 Ozaki, has died at the age of 78. Ozaki, who was known&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-208434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}