{"id":232679,"date":"2025-10-18T00:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T00:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/232679\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T00:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T00:38:07","slug":"caitlin-clark-returns-to-action-on-grass-instead-of-hardwood-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/232679\/","title":{"rendered":"Caitlin Clark returns to action on grass instead of hardwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">BELLEAIR, Fla. (AP) &#8211; Caitlin Clark is returning to action \u2014 on the golf course, not the basketball court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Clark, whose second season in the WNBA <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/caitlin-clark-indiana-fever-05ca033f9a3c5f3aca656980871bb2e2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ended early<\/a> because of a series of injuries, will return to play in the pro-am next month at The Annika on the LPGA Tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI had an amazing time at The Annika last November and participating in the pro-am alongside Nelly Korda and Annika Sorenstam, two of the best in the game,\u201d Clark said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">The pro-am is Nov. 12 at Pelican Golf Club and open to the public. Clark, who had just finished her first season in the WNBA and was rookie of the year, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/caitlin-clark-nelly-korda-lpga-tour-3cada34c0cef35551a31858ec733ce25\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">brought out big crowds and a big buzz last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Annika is the penultimate tournament on the LPGA schedule. Clark has a corporate relationship with Gainbridge Insurance, the main sponsor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Clark\u2019s second WNBA season was slowed by injuries. She played only 13 games and was ruled out out for the rest of the season on Sept. 4 with a groin injury. The Indiana Fever reached the playoffs again but were eliminated by the Las Vegas Aces in the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BELLEAIR, Fla. (AP) &#8211; Caitlin Clark is returning to action \u2014 on the golf course, not the basketball&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[7413,129457,48863,1760,48864,427,49460,54317,129455,78252,129454,13014,124951,573,59317,5943,99,129456,129458],"class_list":["post-232679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-action","tag-cailtlin-clark-iowa","tag-caitlin","tag-caitlin-clark","tag-clark","tag-golf","tag-golfing","tag-grass","tag-hardwood","tag-hawkeyes","tag-instead","tag-iowa","tag-iowa-basketball","tag-of","tag-pro-am","tag-returns","tag-sports","tag-the-annika-on-the-lpga-tour","tag-women-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232679","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=232679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}