{"id":459191,"date":"2023-09-15T15:42:27","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T11:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=459191"},"modified":"2023-09-15T15:42:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T11:42:27","slug":"johnson-shares-defection-to-liv-cost-him-ryder-cup-place","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/johnson-shares-defection-to-liv-cost-him-ryder-cup-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson shares defection to LIV cost him Ryder Cup place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dustin Johnson thinks he would have been part of the USA\u2019s Ryder Cup team in 2023 if he hadn\u2019t joined LIV Golf.<\/p>\n<p>DJ, a 2-time major champ, will need to watch the tournament from the television despite being part of 5 previous US teams. The Ryder Cup will be played in Rome, Italy, as the tournament begins on September 29<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would like to be a part of the team,&#8221; the golfer shared to The Palm Beach Post. &#8220;But truthfully, I haven&#8217;t played my best golf during the current campaign. But have I played at the level to secure my place in the team? Yeah. I didn&#8217;t have the best season. Was it good enough to be selected for the Ryder Cup? I think I do.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I had been part of the PGA Tour, I would be getting ready to play at the Ryder Cup. Do I think I can help my country? Definitely.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Dustin Johnson revealed that he thinks he was &#8220;good enough&#8221; to make the U.S. Ryder Cup team during an interview with the Palm Beach Post. Was he a Ryder Cup snub?<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pFg7bQMrKq\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/pFg7bQMrKq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 GOLF.com (@GOLF_com) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GOLF_com\/status\/1702445874129883581?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 14, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dustin Johnson thinks he would have been part of the USA\u2019s Ryder Cup team in 2023 if he hadn\u2019t joined LIV Golf. DJ, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":459192,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18544,17867,16988,16770],"news_category":[16713],"gn_keywords":[21399,18615,18616,19663,7308],"acf":{"announce":"Dustin claimed that joining the LIV was the reason he was not selected for the Ryder Cup.","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\/459191"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/459191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459194,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/459191\/revisions\/459194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459191"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=459191"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=459191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}