{"id":27872,"date":"2025-07-22T05:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T05:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/27872\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T05:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T05:24:08","slug":"scottie-scheffler-improved-his-greatness-and-golf-has-to-reckon-with-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/27872\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottie Scheffler improved his greatness and golf has to reckon with it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland \u2014 Come and get me.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is the message Scottie Scheffler has delivered \u2014 in a subliminal way \u2014 to the rest of the golf world.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That was a recurring theme heard from those competitors of the 29-year-old world No. 1 who <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/20\/sports\/scottie-scheffler-cruises-to-british-open-win-one-away-from-career-grand-slam\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nearly lapped the field<\/a> en route to winning the 153rd British Open on Sunday at Royal Portrush.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Scheffler\u2019s final margin of victory at the Open was four shots, but it felt like double that with the way he completely controlled the tournament, particularly the final 36 holes.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland \u2014 Come and get me.\u00a0 This is the message Scottie Scheffler has delivered \u2014 in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[7697,15547,427,6082,5758,11384,99,362,358],"class_list":["post-27872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-british-open","tag-bryson-dechambeau","tag-golf","tag-rory-mcilroy","tag-scottie-scheffler","tag-shane-lowry","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27872","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=27872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}