{"id":476386,"date":"2026-03-15T04:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T04:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/476386\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T04:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T04:50:12","slug":"chris-gotterup-quickly-became-one-of-the-pga-tours-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/476386\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Gotterup quickly became one of the PGA Tour&#8217;s best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PONTE VEDRA, Fla. \u2014 The rate of upward trajectory in Chris Gotterup\u2019s golf career is enough to give you vertigo, it\u2019s been so dizzying.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old who grew up in Little Silver, N.J., down the Shore, and played at Rutgers, has become one of the big boys on the PGA Tour \u2014 literally (at 6-foot, 210 pounds and one of the longest hitters in the game) and statistically (he\u2019s ranked No. 7 in the world and is the only player who\u2019s won more than once in 2026).<\/p>\n<p>A year ago, Gotterup was simply trying to make cuts, play weekends, and get into the Tour\u2019s big-boy tournaments.<\/p>\n<p>He missed the cut in five of his first seven starts in 2025 and in eight of his first 12 events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PONTE VEDRA, Fla. \u2014 The rate of upward trajectory in Chris Gotterup\u2019s golf career is enough to give&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,44215,44212,45916,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-476386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus","tag-the-players-championship","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476386","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=476386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}