{"id":2234,"date":"2019-12-03T14:08:33","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T14:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thegolfshoponline.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2234"},"modified":"2020-03-10T12:49:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T12:49:57","slug":"jordan-spieth-next-younger-mcilroy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thegolfshoponline.co.uk\/blog\/jordan-spieth-next-younger-mcilroy\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Spieth, The Next (and Younger) McIlroy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">After the 21 year old American smoked the competition at the Emirates Australian Open, it&#8217;s questionable whether he will become the next, and even younger, number one. Finishing with a course-record of 63 and winning the tournament by six shots, Spieth said his flawless round was the best he&#8217;s ever played.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The competition happened to be world number one Rory McIlroy, who tied world number three, Adam Scott for 15th. McIlroy wasn&#8217;t too upset though, he simply said it &#8220;just wasn&#8217;t meant to be this year&#8221; and even sent a congratulatory Tweet out about Spieth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Spieth, who finished runner-up at this year&#8217;s Masters, is the first American winner of the Australian Open since Brad Faxon in 1993. With such a big win, we&#8217;re wondering if Spieth will start to take over McIlroy&#8217;s world-number-one glory, or if this was just a lucky break. What do you think?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Get the full story here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/0\/golf\/30266948\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Australian Open: Jordan Spieth wins with 63 as Rory McIlroy falters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With such a big win, we&#8217;re wondering if Spieth will start to take over McIlroy&#8217;s world-number-one glory, or if this was just a lucky break. What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[159],"tags":[169],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegolfshoponline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegolfshoponline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegolfshoponline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegolfshoponline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegolfshoponline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegolfshoponline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2235,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegolfshoponline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234\/revisions\/2235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegolfshoponline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegolfshoponline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegolfshoponline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}