{"id":653764,"date":"2026-06-23T10:02:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T10:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/653764\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T10:02:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T10:02:14","slug":"mayo-sets-the-pace-at-the-womens-amateur-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/653764\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayo sets the pace at The Women&#8217;s Amateur Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sitting solo second is \u00a0Heck, whose \u00a0round featured a major highlight during the morning wave. Facing a steady breeze on \u00a0Muirfield&#8217;s testing 16th, the Frenchwoman executed a five-iron that found the bottom of the cup for her second career hole-in-one.\u00a0<br \/>\nShe said, &#8220;I struck it pretty well. &#8220;It was into the wind so I hit it a bit low with a fade and then I just saw it bounce. Then I was like, &#8216;It might be in,&#8217; and then, yeah, it was in. We all laughed and clapped. It was good.&#8221;<br \/>\nRemarkably, Heck was not the only player, let alone Frenchwoman, to find magic on the short holes today. Championship debutant Gisele Zhou also recorded a hole-in-one during her opening round on the 4th.<br \/>\nDespite sitting towards the top of the leaderboard, Heck is keeping her expectations firmly in check.\u00a0<br \/>\nShe said, &#8220;It&#8217;s a long, long tournament, so I&#8217;ll just go day by day and see how I feel every day. I really like this championship. Everything is perfect, everybody is so welcoming and the organisation is perfect. I just want to keep the momentum going and keep doing what I&#8217;m doing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sitting solo second is \u00a0Heck, whose \u00a0round featured a major highlight during the morning wave. Facing a steady&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-653764","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\/653764","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=653764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}