{"id":516630,"date":"2026-04-06T22:43:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T22:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/516630\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T22:43:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T22:43:17","slug":"the-masters-mckibbin-enjoying-surreal-start-to-his-first-masters-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/516630\/","title":{"rendered":"The Masters: McKibbin enjoying &#8216;surreal&#8217; start to his first Masters week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Although delighted to be part of the field, McKibbin is eager to make his mark and acknowledges the famous course is challenging.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Long fairways and &#8220;pristine&#8221; greens are what he will encounter but he wants to leave on Sunday happy with his week&#8217;s work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Whether that means playing through the weekend or making a charge at the leaderboard remains to be seen, but making the most of this opportunity is his primary motivation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Some of the holes are very long, especially around 10 and 11, you&#8217;re hitting a lot of long irons into the greens which look pretty small from there, but the golf course is just incredible,&#8221; he noted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve played it a few times now and it&#8217;s everything you could imagine, so to play more over the week is pretty cool.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The greens are absolutely perfect, so pristine, quick and once you get out onto the course, there are some pretty crazy slopes on them you can really play around with.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The golf course changes so much over the week, I don&#8217;t know what to expect, but I would just like to have a nice week, play well and see where that is. Your first one there aren&#8217;t a lot of expectations, but I want to have a good week.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although delighted to be part of the field, McKibbin is eager to make his mark and acknowledges the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-516630","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\/516630","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=516630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}