{"id":432429,"date":"2023-04-01T05:02:56","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T09:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=432429"},"modified":"2023-04-01T04:21:59","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T08:21:59","slug":"wise-withdraws-from-masters-to-focus-on-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/wise-withdraws-from-masters-to-focus-on-mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Wise withdraws from Masters to focus on mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former PGA Tour rookie of the year Aaron Wise announced he had decided to withdraw from next week&#8217;s Masters to focus on his mental health.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old American has competed in the Masters once before, finishing solo 17th in 2019, and earned a spot in this year&#8217;s field at Augusta National by finishing 2022 inside the world top 50.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cGolf is just as much a mental game as it is one of physical skill, and the mental piece of it has been a struggle for me recently.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>See you soon, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aaronwise_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@AaronWise_<\/a> \ud83d\udc4a<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PGATOUR\/status\/1641875846074884122?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 31, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Regretfully I am withdrawing from The Masters today,&#8221; Wise wrote on Instagram. &#8220;Golf is just as much a mental game as it is one of physical skill, and the mental piece of it has been a struggle for me recently.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t take the significance of playing at Augusta lightly, but I know that I need to take some time away to focus on my mental health so I can get back to competing at a level I am proud of. This hurts but it&#8217;s needed. See you all soon.&#8221;, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Masters begins on April 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former PGA Tour rookie of the year Aaron Wise announced he had decided to withdraw from next week&#8217;s Masters to focus on his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":432430,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18544],"news_category":[],"gn_keywords":[7308],"acf":{"announce":"\"The mental piece of it has been a struggle for me recently\", he said","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/432429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/432429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432429"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=432429"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=432429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}