{"id":10444,"date":"2025-07-15T01:24:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T01:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/10444\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T01:24:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T01:24:04","slug":"two-time-champion-harrington-to-hit-opening-tee-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/10444\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-time champion Harrington to hit opening tee shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two-time Open champion Padraig Harrington will hit the opening tee shot at this year&#8217;s tournament at Royal Portrush.<\/p>\n<p>The 53-year-old Irishman, who clinched back-to-back Claret Jugs in 2007 and 2008, will open play early on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Harrington won his first Open title at Carnoustie in 2007, beating Sergio Garcia in a dramatic play-off after starting the final round six shots back.<\/p>\n<p>He successfully defended in horrendous conditions at Royal Birkdale 12 months later, carding an impressive closing 69 to finish four shots clear of England&#8217;s Ian Poulter.<\/p>\n<p>Harrington, who also held off Garcia to win the 2008 US PGA Championship, missed the cut at the 2019 Open at Royal Portrush.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1752542644_541_\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two-time Open champion Padraig Harrington will hit the opening tee shot at this year&#8217;s tournament at Royal Portrush.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[10511,427,10512,10509,6899,10510,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-10444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-claret-jugs","9":"tag-golf","10":"tag-open-champion","11":"tag-padraig-harrington","12":"tag-royal-portrush","13":"tag-sergio-garcia","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}