{"id":311988,"date":"2025-12-12T11:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T11:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/311988\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T11:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T11:57:10","slug":"blistering-start-takes-burke-top-of-dunhill-leaderboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/311988\/","title":{"rendered":"Blistering start takes Burke top of Dunhill leaderboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World number 713 Christiaan Burke shared the lead with Eugenio Chacarra as Brandon Robinson Thompson led the British challenge at the Alfred Dunhill Championship in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p>Spaniard Chacarra shot 63, making eight birdies, an eagle and just one bogey.<\/p>\n<p>Burke amazingly birdied his first six holes \u2013 &#8220;Always fun, a six-birdie start,&#8221; he joked afterwards \u2013 and a birdie-eagle finish took him alongside Chacarra at the summit.<\/p>\n<p>Fellow South Africans Thriston Lawrence and Brandon Stone were one off the lead on eight under, with Robinson Thompson a shot further back \u2013 sharing fifth place with three more home players in Branden Grace, Daniel van Tonder and Samuel Simpson \u2013 after two eagles in his 65.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/results\/golf\/european-tour-1\/28889\/alfred-dunhill-championship-908755\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alfred Dunhill Championship leaderboard<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World number 713 Christiaan Burke shared the lead with Eugenio Chacarra as Brandon Robinson Thompson led the British&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-311988","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311988","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=311988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}