{"id":712627,"date":"2026-06-19T01:39:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T01:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/712627\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T01:39:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T01:39:22","slug":"u-s-open-2026-jason-day-withdraws-midway-through-opening-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/712627\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Open 2026: Jason Day withdraws midway through opening round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. \u2013 Jason Day withdrew midway through the opening round because of a back injury.<\/p>\n<p>Day grimaced and grabbed his back after teeing off on the first hole, his 10th of the day, and was carted back to the clubhouse after completing the hole.<\/p>\n<p>Day was 7 over par for the day at Shinnecock, after closing out his first nine with six consecutive bogeys.<\/p>\n<p>The 38-year-old Australian has a long history of back issues but seemed to turn a corner in recent years, allowing him to remain among the top 50 in the world. He tied for 12th earlier this year at the Masters.<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"Link\" aria-label=\"U.S. OPEN NEWSLETTER\" href=\"https:\/\/cloud.email.golfchannel.com\/email-optin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"LiveFrom_Newsletter_USOPEN.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1781708651_674_.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the Rex &amp; Lav \u201cLive From\u201d newsletter. Enjoy on-site insight, news and commentary from the game\u2019s biggest events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. \u2013 Jason Day withdrew midway through the opening round because of a back injury. Day grimaced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-712627","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\/712627","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=712627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}