{"id":18397,"date":"2025-07-18T07:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T07:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/18397\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T07:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T07:42:07","slug":"eric-larsons-past-keeping-him-off-harris-englishs-british-open-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/18397\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Larson’s past keeping him off Harris English’s British Open bag"},"content":{"rendered":"

PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland \u2014 Harris English walked off Royal Portrush on Thursday evening in the sixth-to-last group of the day with a share of the first-round British Open lead at 4-under par.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But he did so without his trusty caddie of more than eight years toting his bag off the 18th green.\u00a0<\/p>\n

English\u2019s caddie, Eric Larson, was denied entry into Great Britain because of a drug conviction 30 years ago, when he pleaded guilty to sending cocaine to friends, and a new rule in the United Kingdom\u2019s overseas travel system.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Larson, in a profile written by The Post<\/a> in June 2021, said he wasn\u2019t a user or a dealer and didn\u2019t know what he was transporting, but he still spent 10 years and three months in prison before he was released in June 2006.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland \u2014 Harris English walked off Royal Portrush on Thursday evening in the sixth-to-last group of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[7697,186,427,99,358,1049],"class_list":["post-18397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-british-open","tag-exclusive","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18397","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=18397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}