{"id":5516,"date":"2024-10-12T09:17:15","date_gmt":"2024-10-12T09:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/rory-mcilroy-and-scottie-scheffler-to-face-bryson-dechambeau-and-brooks-koepka-in-exhibition\/"},"modified":"2024-10-12T09:17:15","modified_gmt":"2024-10-12T09:17:15","slug":"rory-mcilroy-and-scottie-scheffler-to-face-bryson-dechambeau-and-brooks-koepka-in-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/rory-mcilroy-and-scottie-scheffler-to-face-bryson-dechambeau-and-brooks-koepka-in-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler to face Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka in exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler are to take part in an exhibition event against Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka at Shadow Creek in Las Vegas on 17 December.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 18-hole challenge will pit two of the top-ranked PGA Tour players against two of the leading names from the Saudi-backed LIV Golf series, with organisers of the made-for-television event now confirming the location and date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The details of the contest, which is being billed as &#8216;The Showdown&#8217;, were announced against a backdrop of ongoing talks between the PGA Tour and LIV&#8217;s backers, the Saudi Arabian Investment Fund (PIF) about a possible merger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The format of the competition has yet to be finalised.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shadow Creek Golf Course previously hosted the first version of &#8216;The Match&#8217;, the predecessor to &#8216;The Showdown&#8217;, between Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/golf\/articles\/cvg347vp7gyo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler are to take part in an exhibition event against Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka at Shadow Creek in Las Vegas on 17 December. The 18-hole challenge will pit two of the top-ranked PGA Tour players against two of the leading names from the Saudi-backed LIV Golf series, with organisers of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5516","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\/5516","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=5516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5518,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5516\/revisions\/5518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}