{"id":372974,"date":"2025-08-25T18:33:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T18:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/372974\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T18:33:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T18:33:15","slug":"becky-morgan-claims-career-best-win-at-us-senior-womens-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/372974\/","title":{"rendered":"Becky Morgan claims career best win at US Senior Women&#8217;s Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Just unbelievable,&#8221; Morgan told the website of the USGA, the governing body that runs the game in America and which organises the Senior Women&#8217;s Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I said to my caddie Beth, &#8216;I&#8217;m not looking at the scoreboard until I need to&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was debating my shot into 18, and I said, &#8216;Beth, what&#8217;s the score?&#8217; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She said, &#8216;You have a six-shot lead,&#8217; so I said, &#8216;OK, we&#8217;re going for it&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I just stayed really calm all day, holed some really good putts, and can&#8217;t quite believe it, to be honest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Morgan claimed one victory on the Ladies European Tour &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/golf\/45941134\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the 2018 Hero Women&#8217;s Indian Open.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She began the final day at San Diego Country club in a three-way tie for the lead and produced five birdies, two bogeys and several key par-saving putts for a closing 70.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The victory qualifies Morgan &#8211; who twice represented Great Britain &amp; Ireland in the Curtis Cup match against the best amateurs from the US &#8211; for the 2026 US Women&#8217;s Open at Riviera Country Club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I would not have dreamt this,&#8221; added Morgan who stopped playing on the LPGA tour in 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Since I started playing on the sort of Senior Tour, I&#8217;ve had some decent success, but obviously nothing like this. It&#8217;s absolutely unbelievable.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Just unbelievable,&#8221; Morgan told the website of the USGA, the governing body that runs the game in America&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4106],"tags":[2826,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-372974","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115090844140166908","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}