{"id":3043,"date":"2025-07-21T12:04:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/21\/bear-forced-opening-day-of-golf-tournament-to-be-cancelled\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T12:04:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:04:05","slug":"bear-forced-opening-day-of-golf-tournament-to-be-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/21\/bear-forced-opening-day-of-golf-tournament-to-be-cancelled\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear forced opening day of golf tournament to be cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-07-21 12:04:03<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>The opening day of a pro-am golf tournament was cancelled after a bear was spotted on the course.<BR><br \/>\nOn July 16, the grizzly beast decided to wander near the first tee at the Sendai Classic Golf Club in Tomiya, Japan.<BR><br \/>\nThe Meiji Yasuda Ladies tournament, a JLPGA Tour event, was set to kick off on July 17, and was scheduled to last for four days.<BR><br \/>\nPlayers and staff were ordered to evacuate the course and the event was abandoned following the bear sighting.<BR><br \/>\nHowever, the tournament began on July 18 &#8211; without spectators.<BR><br \/>\nOrganisers wrote on the tournament&#8217;s website: &#8220;On Wednesday, a bear sighting on the course was reported and the pro-am tournament was cancelled to protect the safety of the participants, players and staff.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;To ensure safety and to consider future measures, we have decided to cancel Thursday&#8217;s opening day.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nThe incident came two months after a bear was spotted on the green at Golf Club Twin Fields in Komatsu, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, during the first round of the Twinfield Ladies on the women&#8217;s second-tier Step Up tour.<BR><br \/>\nAs a result, the first round was cancelled.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-07-21 12:04:03 The opening day of a pro-am golf tournament was cancelled after a bear was spotted on the course. On July 16, the grizzly beast decided to wander near&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3044,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3045,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043\/revisions\/3045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}