{"id":747696,"date":"2026-08-24T01:12:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T01:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/747696\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T01:12:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T01:12:20","slug":"one-shot-off-bmw-lead-gary-woodland-tops-tee-ball-into-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/747696\/","title":{"rendered":"One shot off BMW lead, Gary Woodland tops tee ball into creek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Woodland had birdied four of his first eight holes to pull within a shot of leader Wyndham Clark on Sunday at the BMW Championship.<\/p>\n<p>But then the unthinkable happened: Woodland topped a 3-wood into a creek.<\/p>\n<p>Woodland\u2019s tee shot traveled just 97 yards, and Woodland was forced to drop on the front tee box, still 350 yards away on the 436-yard hole.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Gary Woodland tops his tee shot on No. 9 \ud83d\ude2c<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That [creek] has never been in play, any tournament they&#8217;ve ever had here.&#8221; &#8211; Jim Nantz <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Y11rBi09mU\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Y11rBi09mU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Golf on CBS \u26f3 (@GolfonCBS) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GolfonCBS\/status\/2091608450144895330?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 23, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Woodland laid up to 132 yards before wedging to 14 feet. He\u2019d two-putt from there, card a double bogey and drop back to 12 under, as he turned three shots behind Clark.<\/p>\n<p>Woodland began the week No. 31 in FedExCup points. The top 30 after the BMW advance to the season-ending Tour Championship.<\/p>\n<p>                                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gary Woodland had birdied four of his first eight holes to pull within a shot of leader Wyndham&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":747697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-747696","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\/747696","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=747696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}