{"id":3539,"date":"2025-07-12T06:19:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T06:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/3539\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T06:19:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T06:19:04","slug":"links-newcomer-chris-gotterup-ties-course-record-61-at-calm-genesis-scottish-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/3539\/","title":{"rendered":"Links newcomer Chris Gotterup ties course-record 61 at calm Genesis Scottish Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-family:Suisse Intl, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:1.7rem;line-height:2.6rem;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0rem;position:relative\">Gotterup\u2019s only experience playing links golf came at last year\u2019s Genesis Scottish Open, a missed cut. But the 25-year-old New Jersey native has been playing well as of late. He\u2019s made eight of his last nine cuts on the PGA TOUR, with six top 25s (but no top 10s). Luckily, the golf felt much more American than linksy for much of Friday\u2019s second round. Playing with hardly a breath of wind, Gotterup was able to point and fire at most flags, which he did admirably well. Gotterup curled in a 45-footer for his first birdie of the day at No. 2, but his next four birdies came from inside 12 feet. He added a 29-foot birdie at the ninth to make the turn in 6-under 29, then added another birdie at the tenth to start a push to shoot 59.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gotterup\u2019s only experience playing links golf came at last year\u2019s Genesis Scottish Open, a missed cut. But the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-3539","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\/3539","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=3539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}