{"id":18712,"date":"2025-07-26T05:13:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T09:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/alker-leads-senior-british-open-with-63-strokes-golfer-seeks-another-major\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T05:13:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T09:13:57","slug":"alker-leads-senior-british-open-with-63-strokes-golfer-seeks-another-major","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/golf\/alker-leads-senior-british-open-with-63-strokes-golfer-seeks-another-major\/","title":{"rendered":"Alker Leads Senior British Open with 63 Strokes: Golfer Seeks Another Major"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Steven Alker Takes the Lead at the Senior British Open<\/h2>\n\nGolfer Steven Alker shone at the Old Course at Sunningdale with an impressive round of 63 strokes, seven under par, securing the lead in the Senior British Open, the last major of the year on the PGA Tour Champions.\n\nAlker, with two Charles Schwab Cup titles and nine victories on the PGA Tour Champions, seeks his second senior major, after his triumph at the Senior PGA Championship in 2022.\n\nHis performance puts him with a one-stroke lead over Mark Hensby of Australia. Defending champion, K.J. Choi, and Joe Durant, are three strokes behind, with a score of 66.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cI was efficient today. I managed to get the ball in the fairway when needed, my iron game was solid and I holed some putts, especially on the back nine, which kept the momentum going,\u201d Alker stated. \u201cYou always need momentum. It&#8217;s a good first round for the Senior Open.\u201d<\/p><cite>Steven Alker<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nPadraig Harrington and Ernie Els are in a group one stroke behind the third. Justin Leonard, who made the cut last week at the British Open at Royal Portrush, is among those who recorded 69 strokes.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Alker Takes the Lead at the Senior British Open Golfer Steven Alker shone at the Old Course at Sunningdale with an impressive round of 63 strokes, seven under par, securing the lead in the Senior British Open, the last major of the year on the PGA Tour Champions. Alker, with two Charles Schwab Cup [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1348,163,6361,6296],"class_list":{"0":"post-18712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-birdie","9":"tag-golf","10":"tag-senior-open","11":"tag-steven-alker"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18712","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=18712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}