{"id":512796,"date":"2026-03-09T10:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T10:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/512796\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T10:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T10:27:09","slug":"zach-johnson-wins-james-hardie-in-champions-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/512796\/","title":{"rendered":"Zach Johnson wins James Hardie in Champions debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOCA RATON, Fla. &#8212; Two-time major champion <a data-player-guid=\"b1f2ad4f-0a5c-b0f9-5381-87cb3f84b62e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/686\/zach-johnson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zach Johnson<\/a> turned 50 on Feb. 24 and quickly cashed in Sunday in his PGA Tour Champions debut, closing with a 3-under 69 for a four-shot victory in the James Hardie Pro Football Hall of Fame Invitational.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson made an early bogey and that was his only blemish on the scorecard, adding four birdies to pull away on the Old Course at Broken Sound.<\/p>\n<p>He became the 22nd player to win his debut on the 50-and-older circuit. <a data-player-guid=\"96b14f80-5c0a-8750-ad5e-907f158e09be\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/78\/stewart-cink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stewart Cink<\/a> (70) and <a data-player-guid=\"710addb7-d9ba-b9cb-d551-0a3844cd3028\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/808\/george-mcneill\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">George McNeill<\/a> (72) finished second.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Staying in modest shape to play with these guys &#8230; because it&#8217;s still really good golf, highly competitive on a phenomenal track, I am humbled,&#8221; Johnson said. &#8220;I am extremely excited, and I have been excited. The first moment I stepped foot on these premises, I was like, &#8216;Hey, this is special.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Johnson finished at 11-under 205 and earned $330,000 to move to No. 3 in the Charles Schwab Cup. Cink remains atop the standings.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson had not won since he captured the British Open at St. Andrews in 2015. He was U.S. Ryder Cup captain at Marco Simone in 2023, losing to Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOCA RATON, Fla. &#8212; Two-time major champion Zach Johnson turned 50 on Feb. 24 and quickly cashed in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-512796","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\/512796","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=512796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}