{"id":929773,"date":"2026-07-12T11:50:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T11:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/929773\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T11:50:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T11:50:37","slug":"chris-gotterup-ready-to-take-next-step-at-british-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/929773\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Gotterup ready to take next step at British Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SOUTHPORT, England \u2014 It was a year ago when Chris Gotterup officially introduced himself to the golf world.<\/p>\n<p>He <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/14\/sports\/nj-native-chris-gotterups-life-changing-win-got-him-into-british-open\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">did so in a big way<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Staring down Rory McIlroy in the final round of a PGA Tour signature event close to McIlroy\u2019s home roots \u2014 the Scottish Open \u2014 will do that for a young (26 years old) up-and-coming player who hadn\u2019t been a regular on the international stage.<\/p>\n<p>Jersey proud (seriously) and Jersey strong (literally), the burly, unafraid and unaffected Gotterup \u2014 a product of Little Silver, NJ, Rumson Country Club, Rutgers and Oklahoma \u2014 won at the Renaissance Club on the East Lothian coast of Scotland last July and followed that up by nearly winning the British Open the next week, tying for third.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOUTHPORT, England \u2014 It was a year ago when Chris Gotterup officially introduced himself to the golf world.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":929774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[47],"tags":[48831,1430,401,1445,1456,62,2632,2225,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-929773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-british-open","tag-golf","tag-new-jersey","tag-pga","tag-pga-tour","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116906860656224530","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/929774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}