{"id":475758,"date":"2026-03-14T19:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T19:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/475758\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T19:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T19:50:08","slug":"the-players-championship-live-text-updates-leaderboard-scores-radio-commentary-from-third-round-action-at-tpc-sawgrass-including-rory-mcilroy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/475758\/","title":{"rendered":"The Players Championship LIVE: Text updates, leaderboard scores &#038; radio commentary from third round action at TPC Sawgrass including Rory McIlroy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another hat-trickpublished at 19:13 GMT<\/p>\n<p>19:13 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-w0w395-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">Smotherman -8 (6)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Austin Smotherman is another man to knock in three straight birdies as he joins the cavalry charge moving up the leaderboard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Smotherman&#8217;s wife is expecting their third child right about now, but he has no plans to leave Sawgrass even if the new arrival comes during the tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cMy wife\u2019s giving me the okay to play this week,&#8221; said Smotherman. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So just keep playing golf, go have a baby whenever the baby shows up. She\u2019s not getting induced or anything, so we\u2019re just kind of letting it roll.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Austin Smotherman at Sawgrass Players Championship\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/0f754322-f4ac-4be4-bb68-c78c2d9b2bbf.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cI don\u2019t know what she\u2019s going to do. She doesn\u2019t know if she\u2019s going to try and contact me, contact my caddie, and then figure out if he relays the info or if I just play. We just we don\u2019t know. I\u2019m just playing golf. Yeah, yeah. The plan is to stay. Wild.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">You can tell it&#8217;s their third child and not the first&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another hat-trickpublished at 19:13 GMT 19:13 GMT Smotherman -8 (6) Austin Smotherman is another man to knock in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-475758","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\/475758","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=475758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}