PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland (AP) The British Open at Royal Portrush has had its first hole-in-one.<\/p>\n
English golfer John Parry hit an 8-iron at the 192-yard No. 13 that landed at the front of the green, took a couple of bounces and hopped straight into the cup.<\/p>\n
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There were big celebrations on the tee, with Parry congratulated by playing partner Justin Leonard, the 1997 Open champion.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe atmosphere was absolutely amazing,\u201d Parry said after shooting a 4-under 67 in the third round to be 3 under for the tournament.<\/p>\n
The 38-year-old Parry guessed it was \u201cabout\u201d the 10th hole-in-one of his career.<\/p>\n
\u201cDefinitely the best one, 100%,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Parry is making his second appearance at a British Open, after St. Andrews in 2022.<\/p>\n
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AP golf: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/golf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland (AP) The British Open at Royal Portrush has had its first hole-in-one. English golfer John…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[7697,427,19668,16335,6899,99],"class_list":["post-21704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-british-open","tag-golf","tag-john-parry","tag-justin-leonard","tag-royal-portrush","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21704","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=21704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}