{"id":333220,"date":"2025-12-06T03:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T03:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/333220\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T03:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T03:25:11","slug":"europe-opens-slight-lead-in-world-champions-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/333220\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe opens slight lead in World Champions Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLEARWATER, Fla. &#8212; Former Ryder Cup captains <a data-player-guid=\"98cdf95d-bcc0-dc9a-ef09-886596eb54a4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/82\/darren-clarke\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Darren Clarke<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/37\/thomas-bj%C3%B8rn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Bjorn<\/a> won the modified alternate-shot round as Europe took the lead over the Americans and Internationals after the first day of the Skechers World Champions Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Points are award for each hole in the nine-hole matches at Feather Sound Country Club, with better ball in the morning and the modified alternate shot (Scottish Sixsomes) in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/547\/s%C3%B8ren-kjeldsen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Soren Kjeldsen<\/a> and <a data-player-guid=\"8971503d-cc67-de32-c225-ab842436e076\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/512\/alex-cejka\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Cejka<\/a> each registered 20 points for Europe, which had 57 points.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. and International teams were at 52.5 points each. Two more sessions follow on Friday, and then it concludes Sunday with singles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We got off to a nice start, but as you can all see, scoring is still really, really tight, really close,&#8221; Clarke said. &#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of volatility in the matches to come.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kjeldsen is a vice captain for Europe, but he filled in for <a data-player-guid=\"f2b562db-dd1a-f481-a24c-399a5dec118c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/261\/bernhard-langer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bernhard Langer<\/a>, who sat out with an illness. Langer is expected to play Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEARWATER, Fla. &#8212; Former Ryder Cup captains Darren Clarke and Thomas Bjorn won the modified alternate-shot round as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-333220","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333220","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=333220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}