{"id":882948,"date":"2026-04-09T18:34:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T18:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/882948\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T18:34:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T18:34:16","slug":"masters-live-major-champ-kicked-out-of-augusta-as-rory-mcilroy-shares-tiger-woods-stance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/882948\/","title":{"rendered":"Masters LIVE: Major champ kicked out of Augusta as Rory McIlroy shares Tiger Woods stance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Golf legends Gary Player and Jack Nicklaus have both paid tribute to the 15-time major winner amidst his absence following his arrest last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cMy heart goes out for him,&#8221; Player said. &#8220;There\u2019s nothing worse than living through pain and every day. He\u2019s a huge asset for golf and done so much for the game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Nicklaus added: &#8220;I think golf needs him and would love to have him back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tiger Woods celebrating winning the Masters in 2019\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0_BESTPIX-The-Masters-Final-Round.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"Five time Masters winner Tiger Woods won't play at the 2026 tournament\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Five time Masters winner Tiger Woods won&#8217;t play at the 2026 tournament(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Golf legends Gary Player and Jack Nicklaus have both paid tribute to the 15-time major winner amidst his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":882949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2826,4284,4287,79,4297,4320,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-882948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-masters-tournament","10":"tag-rory-mcilroy","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-the-masters","13":"tag-tiger-woods","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882948","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=882948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}