{"id":16981,"date":"2025-07-17T18:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T18:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/16981\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T18:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T18:18:07","slug":"who-is-leading-the-153rd-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/16981\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is leading The 153rd Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Li, who finished third in The 146th Open at Royal Birkdale, played superbly in a bogey-free round, while Fitzpatrick matched the leading score with the aid of an outrageous chip-in birdie at the 16th, &#8216;Calamity Corner&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the trio in the clubhouse, Glover and Bezuidenhout are four-under with holes to play.<\/p>\n<p>Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy are among a clutch of players one back on three-under. World number one Scheffler birdied the 16th and 17th to move ominously up the leaderboard late in his round, while McIlroy &#8211; seeking to reclaim the Claret Jug in the year he completed the career Grand Slam &#8211; has recovered from a bogey at the 1st with birdies on the 2nd, 5th, 7th and 10th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Li, who finished third in The 146th Open at Royal Birkdale, played superbly in a bogey-free round, while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-16981","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\/16981","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=16981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}