{"id":525457,"date":"2026-07-14T11:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/525457\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T11:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T11:00:10","slug":"british-open-matt-fitzpatrick-blames-betting-for-golf-fans-bad-behaviour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/525457\/","title":{"rendered":"British Open: Matt Fitzpatrick blames betting for golf fans\u2019 bad behaviour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI would say every golfer that\u2019s played a professional tournament has had a message of abuse from someone that is related to gambling,\u201d the 31-year-old said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cFor me, it\u2019s definitely becoming a problem. It would be very easy to influence a bet, whether it\u2019s you\u2019re shouting on someone\u2019s backswing, shouting on a putting stroke. It\u2019s really easy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cObviously, that is really hard to monitor, but it is definitely an issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">Fitzpatrick accepts noisy crowds are now a part of modern golf but insisted there had to be limits on how spectators behaved themselves on the course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI want an atmosphere at a golf tournament,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve said a million times, I love football, I love the atmosphere of a football match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cRyder Cup, playing away from home, succeeding in those atmospheres \u2013 there\u2019s not a much better feeling. I\u2019m all for an atmosphere, but obviously I don\u2019t want it to cross a line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">\u2013 AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI would say every golfer that\u2019s played a professional tournament has had a message of abuse from someone&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15435,44183,4057,29385,27496,29024,14801,11908,9517,46610,2082,18126,226,51928,13620,30506,111,139,69,5493,60781,1436,260034,213,52170,377],"class_list":["post-525457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-bad","tag-behaviour","tag-behind","tag-believes","tag-betting","tag-blames","tag-british","tag-english","tag-fans","tag-fitzpatrick","tag-for","tag-golf","tag-growing","tag-increasingly","tag-leading","tag-matt","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-open","tag-popularity","tag-rise","tag-spectator","tag-sports","tag-tournaments","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}