{"id":16320,"date":"2025-07-13T10:05:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T14:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/ernie-els-withdraws-from-open-championship-double-champion-absent\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T10:05:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T14:05:46","slug":"ernie-els-withdraws-from-open-championship-double-champion-absent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/golf\/ernie-els-withdraws-from-open-championship-double-champion-absent\/","title":{"rendered":"Ernie Els Withdraws from Open Championship: Double Champion Absent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ernie Els Retires from the Open Championship<\/h2>\n\n\nThe two-time champion, Ernie Els, has decided to withdraw from the Open Championship. This is the second time this year that the 55-year-old South African golfer has been absent from a major championship.\n\nThe tournament organizer, The R&amp;A, did not provide a specific reason for Els&#8217; withdrawal. Si Woo Kim, who held the next position on the alternate list according to last week&#8217;s world ranking, will take his place.\n\nEls won the Open Championship in 2002 at Muirfield, after a four-player playoff. His second triumph came in 2012 at Royal Lytham &amp; St. Annes.\n\nOpen champions have the right to participate in the tournament up to the age of 60 years.\n\nPreviously, Els also withdrew from this year&#8217;s The Players Championship.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ernie Els Retires from the Open Championship The two-time champion, Ernie Els, has decided to withdraw from the Open Championship. This is the second time this year that the 55-year-old South African golfer has been absent from a major championship. The tournament organizer, The R&amp;A, did not provide a specific reason for Els&#8217; withdrawal. Si [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2874,163,5222,547],"class_list":{"0":"post-16320","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ernie-els","9":"tag-golf","10":"tag-open-championship","11":"tag-withdrawal"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}