{"id":426859,"date":"2026-01-24T10:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T10:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/426859\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T10:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T10:41:10","slug":"luke-clanton-rico-hoey-nick-dunalp-withdraw-from-american-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/426859\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Clanton, Rico Hoey, Nick Dunalp withdraw from American Express"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three players have withdrawn from the American Express in La Quinta, California, according to the PGA Tour.<\/p>\n<p>Luke Clanton, who was 2 under par after Round 1 play on La Quinta Country Club Thursday, withdrew before competition began Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Rico Hoey, the No. 71-ranked golfer in the world, has also left the second tournament of the PGA Tour season early. <\/p>\n<p>Both left the Tour\u2019s second tournament of the 2026 season due to illness.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Dunlap, who won the 2024 AmEx as an amateur, also withdrew after completing Round 2 play Friday. Dunlap shot 74 at La Quinta Country Club, leaving him 7 over on the week.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nick Dunlap (injury) WD after his second round at The American Express.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PGA TOUR Communications (@PGATOURComms) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PGATOURComms\/status\/2014827706417094674?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 23, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hoey, who withdrew during Round 2 play Friday, was 1 over par through the first nine holes at La Quinta Country Club. He finished 5 over par on the Pete Dye Stadium Course Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Hoey finished T-50 at last week\u2019s Sony Open in Hawaii. Clanton did not survive the cut at Wai\u2019alae.<\/p>\n<p>                                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three players have withdrawn from the American Express in La Quinta, California, according to the PGA Tour. Luke&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-426859","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\/426859","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=426859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}