{"id":21236,"date":"2025-07-19T10:25:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T10:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/21236\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T10:25:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T10:25:15","slug":"hojgaard-twins-cheering-one-another-on-at-british-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/21236\/","title":{"rendered":"Hojgaard twins cheering one another on at British Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland \u2014 Rasmus Hojgaard had just completed his second round Friday, vaulting into contention at Royal Portrush with a chance to become the first Danish player ever to win a British Open.<\/p>\n<p>His 3-under-par 68 got him to 5-under entering the weekend, five shots out of the lead held by Scottie Scheffler.<\/p>\n<p>As Rasmus was having a post-round chat with reporters, his 24-year-old twin brother, Nicolai, was playing the front nine and had moved to 3-under.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you rooting for or against your brother now that you\u2019re both in good position on the leaderboard?\u2019\u2019 a reporter asked Rasmus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland \u2014 Rasmus Hojgaard had just completed his second round Friday, vaulting into contention at Royal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[7697,427,99,362,358,19278],"class_list":["post-21236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-british-open","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus","tag-twins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21236","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=21236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}