{"id":4599,"date":"2008-10-07T00:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T00:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2008\/10\/07\/famous-faces-brave-the-scottish-cold-to-tee-off-with-the-pros\/"},"modified":"2008-10-07T00:27:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T00:27:00","slug":"famous-faces-brave-the-scottish-cold-to-tee-off-with-the-pros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2008\/10\/07\/famous-faces-brave-the-scottish-cold-to-tee-off-with-the-pros\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous faces brave the Scottish cold to tee off with the pros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/>It is most men\u2019s idea of heaven \u2013 the beautiful Scottish countryside, good friends around and a game of golf. And that\u2019s exactly what a group of celebs have been enjoying as they take on the Dunhill Championship at three of the country\u2019s greatest courses.<br \/>\nThe annual pro-am championship \u2013 being played at St Andrews\u2019s Old Course along with the links at Carnoustie and Kingsbarns &#8211; always provides a host of famous faces for star-watchers, and this year is no different.<br \/>\nBraving the cold temperatures for another year was Hollywood hardman Samuel L Jackson, who was partnered with New Zealand golfer Michael Campbell. The two were performing particularly well, starting Saturday of at 11-under par, just four behind the leading duo of England\u2019s David Howell and cricket icon Sir Ian Botham, who looked the picture of golfing elegance in his plus-fours.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, British heart-throb Hugh Grant, who was playing with Miguel Angel Jimenez, found the Old Course particularly challenging. Last year, the handsome actor had his best round ever over the links. \u201cThat day, I was plus three,\u201d he remembered, before adding: \u201cToday, it was more like plus 30.\u201d<br \/>\nAlso taking part in the competition were stars from the world of sports, music and film, including footballer Jamie Redknapp, former British tennis star Tim Henman, actor Luke Wilson and Boyzone hunk Ronan Keating, who were playing alongside the likes of Justin Rose and Scotland\u2019s own Colin Montgomerie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is most men\u2019s idea of heaven \u2013 the beautiful Scottish countryside, good friends around and a game of golf. And that\u2019s exactly what a group of celebs have been enjoying as they take on the Dunhill Championship at three of the country\u2019s greatest courses. The annual pro-am championship \u2013 being played at St Andrews\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}