{"id":266858,"date":"2026-08-17T13:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T13:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266858\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T13:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T13:22:10","slug":"alex-weir-shakes-runner-up-curse-wins-erie-district-amateur-in-playoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266858\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Weir Shakes Runner-Up Curse, Wins Erie District Amateur in Playoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786972929_14_i.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px;opacity:0;pointer-events:none\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786972930_680_i.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px;opacity:0;pointer-events:none\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ar-image-caption\">Alex Weir<\/p>\n<p>Alex Weir knows the weight of second place. For years, the Kahwka Club member had made a habit of finishing close but not quite close enough in Erie District Golf Association majors.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday at Lawrence Park Golf Club, he put an end to all that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ar-paywall-eyebrow\">Member-only \u2014 7 more paragraphs<\/p>\n<p>Keep reading Alex Weir Shakes Runner-Up Curse, Wins Erie District Amateur in Playoff<\/p>\n<p class=\"ar-paywall-sub\">Full access to every member article, plus tournament insights, rankings depth, schedule builder, and member-only analysis. Cancel anytime.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ag-btn ag-btn--primary ag-btn--lg\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amateurgolf.com\/upgrade?next=%2Fgolf-tournament-news%2Falex-weir-shakes-runner-up-curse-wins-erie-district-amateur-in-playoff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Join AmateurGolf<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:var(--font-meta);color:var(--color-stone-400);margin-top:var(--space-3)\">Already a member? <a style=\"color:var(--color-crimson)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amateurgolf.com\/sign-in?next=%2Fgolf-tournament-news%2Falex-weir-shakes-runner-up-curse-wins-erie-district-amateur-in-playoff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786972930_829_i.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px;opacity:0;pointer-events:none\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Weir Alex Weir knows the weight of second place. For years, the Kahwka Club member had made&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-266858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}