{"id":25646,"date":"2025-07-21T08:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T08:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/25646\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T08:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T08:06:08","slug":"scottie-schefflers-young-son-steals-limelight-as-father-wins-the-open-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/25646\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottie Scheffler\u2019s young son steals limelight as father wins The Open | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the moment young Bennett Scheffler drew applause from the crowd after a gentle stumble while trying to reach his father, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/scottie-scheffler\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scottie Scheffler<\/a>, following his Open Championship win on Sunday, 20 July.<\/p>\n<p>The moment, captured on camera, took place on the 18th green at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/royal-portrush\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Portrush<\/a> in Northern Ireland, where Scheffler had secured his fourth major title. As the golfer celebrated, his 14-month-old son toddled forward but lost his balance momentarily. The crowd responded with cheers, encouraging him.<\/p>\n<p>Scheffler waited for Bennett to steady himself before lifting him into his arms. The toddler then looked curiously at the Claret Jug his father had just won.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is the moment young Bennett Scheffler drew applause from the crowd after a gentle stumble while trying&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-25646","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\/25646","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=25646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}