{"id":458618,"date":"2026-02-09T18:25:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/458618\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T18:25:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:25:49","slug":"phoenix-open-chris-gotterup-beats-hideki-matsuyama-in-play-off-to-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/458618\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix Open: Chris Gotterup beats Hideki Matsuyama in play-off to win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gotterup, who followed up a first-round 63 with rounds of 71 and 70, said: &#8220;I didn&#8217;t think this would happen, especially after Friday and Saturday, but here we are.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Hideki was playing great. I just figured I would stay loose.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Victory gave Gotterup his the fourth PGA Tour title, and his second of the season after the Sony Open in Hawaii last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">World number one Scottie Scheffler missed out on the play-off by one shot after going round in 64.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I played pretty well &#8211; only one round where I didn&#8217;t have my best stuff,&#8221; said American Scheffler, who carded a first-round 73.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If I get in the house the first day with a couple under par, it&#8217;s a little different story today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England&#8217;s Matthew Fitzpatrick finished in ninth on 13 under after a 69.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gotterup, who followed up a first-round 63 with rounds of 71 and 70, said: &#8220;I didn&#8217;t think this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-458618","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\/458618","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=458618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}