{"id":477429,"date":"2026-03-15T19:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T19:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/477429\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T19:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T19:51:09","slug":"the-players-championship-live-action-from-sawgrass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/477429\/","title":{"rendered":"The Players Championship LIVE: Action from Sawgrass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rookie putting in a shift at Sawgrasspublished at 19:10 GMT<\/p>\n<p>19:10 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-w0w395-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">Sudarshan Yellamaraju -8 (12)<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sudarsham Yellamaraju\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/322a3d4a-4946-41ac-8d5b-18099d0ac5da.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"810\" height=\"456\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There&#8217;s a rather unfamiliar, and rather long, name near the top of the leaderboard in Sudarshan Yellamaraju &#8211; who fired in a round of 66 yesterday to get into contention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The PGA Tour rookie was born in India but moved to Canada with his family aged four &#8211; and says he learned his golf swing watching Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods videos on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The left-hander is largely self taught, and didn&#8217;t go to college like so many players these days, instead turning pro aged 19 and plying his trade on the PGA Tour Canada and Korn Ferry Tour &#8211; where he earned his PGA Tour card last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He&#8217;s three under for the day but a strong finish could see him set an interesting clubhouse lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rookie putting in a shift at Sawgrasspublished at 19:10 GMT 19:10 GMT Sudarshan Yellamaraju -8 (12) Image source,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-477429","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\/477429","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=477429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}