{"id":71190,"date":"2026-04-08T12:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/gnome-unknowns-masters-chair-ridley-in-dark-about-ornaments-augusta-future\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T12:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:03:10","slug":"gnome-unknowns-masters-chair-ridley-in-dark-about-ornaments-augusta-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/gnome-unknowns-masters-chair-ridley-in-dark-about-ornaments-augusta-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Gnome unknowns: Masters chair Ridley in dark about ornaments\u2019 Augusta future"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Internal secrecy appears to stretch to Augusta chairman<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>\u2018It\u2019s not a trivial question \u2026 they won\u2019t tell me the answer\u2019<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Masters gnome drama has taken another twist after the chair of Augusta National admitted he is in the dark as to the must-have item\u2019s future.<\/p>\n<p>Fred Ridley has repeatedly asked whether 2026 will be the final year for gnomes being on sale \u2013 as has been widely speculated \u2013 but revealed there is internal secrecy even towards him.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/apr\/08\/gnome-unknowns-fred-ridley-masters-golf-augusta\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internal secrecy appears to stretch to Augusta chairman \u2018It\u2019s not a trivial question \u2026 they won\u2019t tell me the answer\u2019 The Masters gnome drama has taken another twist after the chair of Augusta National admitted he is in the dark as to the must-have item\u2019s future. Fred Ridley has repeatedly asked whether 2026 will be &#8230; <a title=\"Gnome unknowns: Masters chair Ridley in dark about ornaments\u2019 Augusta future\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/gnome-unknowns-masters-chair-ridley-in-dark-about-ornaments-augusta-future\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Gnome unknowns: Masters chair Ridley in dark about ornaments\u2019 Augusta future\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}