{"id":517175,"date":"2026-04-07T06:58:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T06:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/517175\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T06:58:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T06:58:22","slug":"scunthorpe-golfer-reg-still-teeing-off-aged-98","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/517175\/","title":{"rendered":"Scunthorpe golfer Reg still teeing off aged 98"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One of Britain&#8217;s oldest golfers is celebrating his 98th birthday by signing up for another year at his local course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reg Robinson, from Ashby, in Scunthorpe, plays two rounds a week at Holme Hall Golf Club and has been described by club mates as &#8220;remarkable&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reg said: &#8220;I&#8217;m so lucky. The lads [I play with] look after me. If I get a bad bounce in to a bunker, they&#8217;ll see that I get in and then pull me out!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Robinson, a former farm labourer and entertainer around Lincolnshire during World War Two, started playing golf almost 50 years ago and won the Senior Open at his club in 2017 at the age of 89.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of Britain&#8217;s oldest golfers is celebrating his 98th birthday by signing up for another year at his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-517175","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\/517175","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=517175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}