{"id":13600,"date":"2025-07-21T18:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T18:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/13600\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T18:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T18:53:07","slug":"curtis-knipes-aiming-to-bounce-back-after-missing-cut-at-the-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/13600\/","title":{"rendered":"Curtis Knipes aiming to bounce back after missing cut at The Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Knipes, from Chelmsford, came through qualifying to earn a second visit to Royal Portrush, six years after becoming the youngest player to feature in the 148th Open at the same venue, in 2019, aged 18.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After a two-over-par first round of 73, Knipes followed that with a four-over-par second round of 75 on Friday to end his involvement before the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Knipes, who mainly plays on the HotelPlanner (Challenge) Tour, added: &#8220;[I&#8217;m] pretty disappointed. I feel like I&#8217;ve just not been sharp enough the last couple of days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I didn&#8217;t make a birdie [in second round]. Putter was very, very cold. If I actually putted well then maybe there would have been half a chance of making the cut. [I was] just a bit too off really.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You don&#8217;t get many chances around here and I gave myself a good few looks, especially on the back nine and just couldn&#8217;t convert.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You have a glimmer of hope and it strips right away from you so it&#8217;s pretty tough.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Knipes, from Chelmsford, came through qualifying to earn a second visit to Royal Portrush, six years after becoming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-13600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}