{"id":5351,"date":"2024-10-04T19:17:15","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T19:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/alfred-dunhill-links-nicolas-colsaerts-and-cameron-john-share-halfway-lead\/"},"modified":"2024-10-04T19:17:15","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T19:17:15","slug":"alfred-dunhill-links-nicolas-colsaerts-and-cameron-john-share-halfway-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/alfred-dunhill-links-nicolas-colsaerts-and-cameron-john-share-halfway-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Alfred Dunhill Links: Nicolas Colsaerts and Cameron John share halfway lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Belgium&#8217;s Nicolas Colsaerts and Australian Cameron John share a one-shot lead at the halfway stage of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 41-year-old Colsaerts carded a seven-under 65 at Carnoustie to top the leaderboard on 14 under alongside John, who shot 68 at St Andrews.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Ryder Cup player Colsaerts went into the tournament ranked 695th in the world, while John, playing just his seventh DP World Tour event, is down in 1,007th spot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The stage I&#8217;m at, the way I see this profession and my career, I&#8217;m just happy to be here,&#8221; said Colsaerts, whose round included eight birdies and just one bogey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">John, 23, said: &#8220;It&#8217;s just fun. You don&#8217;t get it [links courses] a lot back home, maybe the odd course that plays similar but nothing quite the same.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Walking up 18 at St Andrews, it&#8217;s always pretty special, so just remember it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/golf\/articles\/cp394yz4gnko\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belgium&#8217;s Nicolas Colsaerts and Australian Cameron John share a one-shot lead at the halfway stage of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. The 41-year-old Colsaerts carded a seven-under 65 at Carnoustie to top the leaderboard on 14 under alongside John, who shot 68 at St Andrews. Former Ryder Cup player Colsaerts went into the tournament ranked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5351","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\/5351","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=5351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5353,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5351\/revisions\/5353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}