{"id":76256,"date":"2026-07-18T15:55:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T20:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/18\/new-dad-sam-burns-steals-march-on-chasing-pack-to-lead-open-after-third-day\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T15:55:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T20:55:50","slug":"new-dad-sam-burns-steals-march-on-chasing-pack-to-lead-open-after-third-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/18\/new-dad-sam-burns-steals-march-on-chasing-pack-to-lead-open-after-third-day\/","title":{"rendered":"New dad Sam Burns steals march on chasing pack to lead Open after third day"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>American two shots clear of Ryan Fox and Kim Si-woo<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Burns playing because wife gave birth earlier than expected<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After one of the more fiery 24 hours in Open history, how appropriate that a golfer named Burns leads going into the final round at Royal Birkdale.<\/p>\n<p>While Rory McIlroy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/jul\/18\/mcilroy-lashes-out-dechambeau-holding-open-hostage-penalty-row\">directed spicy barbs at Bryson DeChambeau<\/a>, as the row over the American\u2019s behaviour after he was docked two shots for a rules infringement rumbled on, Sam Burns was coolness personified.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/jul\/18\/new-dad-sam-burns-steals-march-on-chasing-pack-to-lead-open-after-third-day\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American two shots clear of Ryan Fox and Kim Si-woo Burns playing because wife gave birth earlier than expected After one of the more fiery 24 hours in Open history, how appropriate that a golfer named Burns leads going into the final round at Royal Birkdale. While Rory McIlroy directed spicy barbs at Bryson DeChambeau, &#8230; <a title=\"New dad Sam Burns steals march on chasing pack to lead Open after third day\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/18\/new-dad-sam-burns-steals-march-on-chasing-pack-to-lead-open-after-third-day\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about New dad Sam Burns steals march on chasing pack to lead Open after third day\">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-76256","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\/76256","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=76256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}