{"id":751089,"date":"2026-08-27T05:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T05:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/751089\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T05:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T05:44:11","slug":"matt-gogel-us-golfer-gets-six-month-suspension-for-betting-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/751089\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Gogel: US golfer gets six-month suspension for betting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">American golfer Matt Gogel has been suspended for six months for betting on golf tournaments, the PGA Tour has said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 55-year-old competes on the PGA Tour Champions circuit which is reserved for professional golfers aged 50 and older. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gogel did not bet on events in which he was participating but admitted to unknowingly violating PGA Tour policy by placing &#8220;small recreational wagers&#8221; in 2024 and 2025. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I would never knowingly violate the integrity of the game of golf,&#8221; Gogel said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I made an honest mistake and I look forward to playing in 2027 on the PGA Tour Champions.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He had two top-10 finishes across 18 PGA Tour Champions events in 2026 and was most recently in action during the Rogers Charity Classic in Calgary, Alberta where he finished tied 30th last week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gogel, who has earned more than $760,000 (\u00a3559,000) in prize money from Champions events, won the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am in 2002 &#8211; his only victory in 179 starts on the PGA Tour. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His suspension came into effect on 23 August and lasts until 22 February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American golfer Matt Gogel has been suspended for six months for betting on golf tournaments, the PGA Tour&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-751089","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\/751089","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=751089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}