{"id":12536,"date":"2024-01-20T01:31:11","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T01:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/jack-burke-jr-two-time-major-winner-dies-at-the-age-of-100\/"},"modified":"2024-01-20T01:31:12","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T01:31:12","slug":"jack-burke-jr-two-time-major-winner-dies-at-the-age-of-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/jack-burke-jr-two-time-major-winner-dies-at-the-age-of-100\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Burke Jr: Two-time major winner dies at the age of 100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-hmf8ql-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Two-time major winner Jack Burke Jr has died at the age of 100, the United States Golf Association has announced.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The American staged the biggest final-round fightback in Masters history when he triumphed from being eight strokes adrift in 1956, the year he also won the US PGA Championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Burke, who had been the oldest living Masters champion, is regarded as one of the best golfers of the 1950s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The last of his 16 PGA Tour wins came in 1963.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Texas-born Burke also had a 7-1 record in his five Ryder Cup starts, captaining a US team that included Jack Nicklaus, Lee Trevino, Arnold Palmer and Billy Casper to victory over Great Britain and Ireland in 1973.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/golf\/68036287\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-time major winner Jack Burke Jr has died at the age of 100, the United States Golf Association has announced. The American staged the biggest final-round fightback in Masters history when he triumphed from being eight strokes adrift in 1956, the year he also won the US PGA Championship. Burke, who had been the oldest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12538,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12536\/revisions\/12538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}