{"id":76124,"date":"2026-07-15T07:54:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T12:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/from-an-out-of-sorts-scheffler-to-caddie-nuptials-what-to-look-out-for-at-2026-open\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T07:54:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T12:54:52","slug":"from-an-out-of-sorts-scheffler-to-caddie-nuptials-what-to-look-out-for-at-2026-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/from-an-out-of-sorts-scheffler-to-caddie-nuptials-what-to-look-out-for-at-2026-open\/","title":{"rendered":"From an out-of-sorts Scheffler to caddie nuptials: what to look out for at 2026 Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 154th Open starts at Royal Birkdale on Thursday with a host of compelling storylines to follow<\/p>\n<p>Scottie Scheffler won the 2025 Open by four strokes but the world No 1 arrives at Royal Birkdale having missed the cut at last week\u2019s Scottish Open. The out-of-form American has claimed his fewest wins in a season since 2021, having claimed only one victory all year: January\u2019s American Express, in his first start of the year. Since then, Scheffler has recorded four runner-up finishes, including at the Masters. \u201cI didn\u2019t really feel like I played that bad,\u201d he said of his missed cut, his first in four years. \u201cThis golf course can be just tough at times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/jul\/15\/scottie-scheffler-rory-mcilroy-2026-open-golf\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 154th Open starts at Royal Birkdale on Thursday with a host of compelling storylines to follow Scottie Scheffler won the 2025 Open by four strokes but the world No 1 arrives at Royal Birkdale having missed the cut at last week\u2019s Scottish Open. The out-of-form American has claimed his fewest wins in a season &#8230; <a title=\"From an out-of-sorts Scheffler to caddie nuptials: what to look out for at 2026 Open\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/from-an-out-of-sorts-scheffler-to-caddie-nuptials-what-to-look-out-for-at-2026-open\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about From an out-of-sorts Scheffler to caddie nuptials: what to look out for at 2026 Open\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76124","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\/76124","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=76124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}