{"id":131268,"date":"2025-09-04T03:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T03:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/131268\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T03:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T03:24:07","slug":"scottie-scheffler-rory-mcilroy-to-captain-compete-in-new-golf-channel-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/131268\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy to Captain, Compete in New Golf Channel Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_izdya3tz0\">Another silly season event is coming to the golf ecosystem.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_y8fi7bcqd\">Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy, the top two players in the world, will captain and compete head-to-head in the Golf Channel Games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_mjtt8m2jv\">It will be a rapid-fire, team golf competition broadcast on Golf Channel and USA Network in primetime on Wednesday, Dec. 17, at Trump National Golf Club Jupiter, in Jupiter, Fla. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sign Up Now. SI Golf Newsletters. Sports Illustrated\u2019s Free Golf Newsletters. dark<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_db1qes4xz\">Scheffler and McIlroy will lead two four-man teams for competitions such as timed drive, chip and putt, a 14-club challenge, a timed shootout and a captain\u2019s challenge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_8qxczmg7b\">These are the formats for each challenge:<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_mmg4u83b3\">More details, such as who will join Scheffler and McIlroy, will be announced in the coming weeks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another silly season event is coming to the golf ecosystem.\u00a0 Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy, the top two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-131268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131268","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=131268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}