{"id":692097,"date":"2026-07-15T00:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T00:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/692097\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T00:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T00:58:11","slug":"team-scheffler-triumphant-at-heroes-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/692097\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Scheffler triumphant at Heroes Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Team Scheffler birdied all three holes, and picked up two further bonus points for team contribution, to deny <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aigwomensopen.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AIG Women\u2019s Open<\/a> Champion Miyu Yamashita, local hero Tommy Fleetwood and rugby legend Bryan Habana by two.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hope this is a sign of things to come,&#8221; Scheffler said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was a lot of fun, and to play with Justin and Paula was great. The spectators came out and gave us great support, which was really nice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Padraig Harrington and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theopen.com\/players\/jordan-spieth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jordan Spieth<\/a>, the two most recent Champions at Royal Birkdale, and former G4D Open Champion Brendan Lawlor, completed the line-up and they finished on seven points, with just one birdie.<\/p>\n<p>Scheffler started proceedings by returning the Claret Jug to R&amp;A Chief Executive Mark Darbon on the 1st tee box. In five days, he will hope to hold it again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Team Scheffler birdied all three holes, and picked up two further bonus points for team contribution, to deny&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-692097","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\/692097","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=692097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}