{"id":699086,"date":"2026-07-18T22:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T22:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/699086\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T22:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T22:41:09","slug":"open-championship-bob-macintyre-seven-shots-behind-going-into-final-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/699086\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Championship: Bob MacIntyre seven shots behind going into final round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">MacIntyre had two bogies and two birdies on his front nine as he struggled to get the ball close to the hole.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He then dropped two shots in quick succession at the 13th and 14th holes before a birdie at the par four 16th gave him some hope of victory heading into his final 18 holes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jack MacDonald, the only other Scot in the field, is on four over par and in a tie for 74th position in what is only his second major championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">MacIntyre begins his final round at 12:05 BST on Sunday alongside American Cameron Young, with MacDonald out at 08:00 alongside another American, Ben Griffin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MacIntyre had two bogies and two birdies on his front nine as he struggled to get the ball&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-699086","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\/699086","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=699086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}