{"id":30671,"date":"2026-06-10T06:28:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T06:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/memorial-tournament-jt-poston-wins-title-by-beating-ryan-gerard-in-play-off\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T06:28:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T06:28:51","slug":"memorial-tournament-jt-poston-wins-title-by-beating-ryan-gerard-in-play-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/memorial-tournament-jt-poston-wins-title-by-beating-ryan-gerard-in-play-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Tournament: JT Poston wins title by beating Ryan Gerard in play-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Poston, 33, squandered his advantage thanks to four bogeys in the first 13 holes, with England&#8217;s Tommy Fleetwood briefly taking the lead on the 15th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Fleetwood bogeyed the 17th and finished in a tie for fourth with American Sam Burns on 10 under par, while Wyndham Clark, who shot a 67, was third.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">American world number one Scottie Scheffler, aiming to equal Tiger Woods&#8217; record of winning three consecutive titles, finished 12th alongside England&#8217;s Justin Rose and Northern Ireland&#8217;s Rory McIlroy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Play was suspended on Saturday because of thunderstorms, with the third round concluding on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Poston, who was tied at nine under with Gerard on the sixth green when play was halted, moved to 12 under, with Gerard four shots back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Burns was third on seven under, with Fleetwood and Clark &#8211; on six under &#8211; completing the top five after three rounds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/golf\/articles\/cvgld33ypd4o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poston, 33, squandered his advantage thanks to four bogeys in the first 13 holes, with England&#8217;s Tommy Fleetwood briefly taking the lead on the 15th. However, Fleetwood bogeyed the 17th and finished in a tie for fourth with American Sam Burns on 10 under par, while Wyndham Clark, who shot a 67, was third. American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30673,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30671\/revisions\/30673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}