{"id":88269,"date":"2021-06-20T23:10:11","date_gmt":"2021-06-20T23:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=88269"},"modified":"2021-06-21T00:01:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T00:01:49","slug":"us-open-contenders-horrible-break-stuns-golf-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=88269","title":{"rendered":"US Open contender&#039;s &#039;horrible break&#039; stuns golf world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a manic back nine on the final round of the US Open that saw contenders <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/golf\/live-scores\/u-s-open-2021\/22624\" title=\"drop off the leaderboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">drop off the leaderboard<\/a> left, right and centre, no-one could have been cursing their luck more than Mackenzie Hughes.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian was just two shots behind leader Luis Oosthuizen when he slipped from contention due to a terribly unlucky lie.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes pulled a tee shot on the par-3 11th hole at Torrey Pines, and could only watch in disbelief as the ball went through a tree, bounced off a cart path and then landed back in the tree, sitting frustratingly snug in between branches, refusing to come down.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PGATOUR\/status\/1406740086759251976\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/PGATOUR\/status\/1406740086759251976<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCSports\/status\/1406739276663037959\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCSports\/status\/1406739276663037959<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usopengolf\/status\/1406739052901007361\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/usopengolf\/status\/1406739052901007361<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Espngreeny\/status\/1406739296317476864\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/Espngreeny\/status\/1406739296317476864<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Weesesports\/status\/1406738758192570373\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/Weesesports\/status\/1406738758192570373<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After consulting with a rules official, Hughes took a drop and hit the ball onto the green. He two putted for double bogey, dropping him to 4-under par.<\/p>\n<p>Oosthuizen, who had a two-shot lead, bogeyed the same hole after flaring a shot to the right. He&#x27;s at 5- under, one ahead of Jon Rahm.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; with AP<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><em><strong>clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>In a manic back nine on the final round of the US Open that saw contenders drop off the leaderboard left, right and centre, no-one <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=88269\" title=\"US Open contender&#039;s &#039;horrible break&#039; stuns golf world\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88270,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88269\/revisions\/88270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}