{"id":104285,"date":"2025-08-29T13:11:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T13:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/104285\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T13:11:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T13:11:17","slug":"gold-coast-prodigy-claims-dual-world-golf-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/104285\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold Coast prodigy claims dual world golf titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight-year-old golfing prodigy Hugo Smith has returned to Australia following a successful campaign at the world championships in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The young <a href=\"http:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/gold-coast\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Gold Coast\">Gold Coast<\/a> local secured victories in two separate world title events, the Uswing IMG Junior World Championships and the FCG Callaway World Junior Championship.<\/p>\n<p>The young golfer said he was composed under pressure at the world titles and &#8220;just thought of it like it was a game of golf&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/5c66d05e-4277-4333-9ce3-00227dac6573.png\"   alt=\"Gold prodigy Hugo Smith has won two world championships.\"\/>Gold prodigy Hugo Smith has won two world championships. (9News)<\/p>\n<p>His father, Ben Smith, who acted as his caddy, acknowledged the pressure involved.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I try not to get too nervous because I know he bounces off me,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So I try not to show it, but I get really nervous.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The plan was for me to play and for him to carry my bags but that has now changed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This article was produced with the assistance of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/technology\/9express\/16480c33-636a-461f-9c4f-d0e2522c722a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">9ExPress<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eight-year-old golfing prodigy Hugo Smith has returned to Australia following a successful campaign at the world championships in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-104285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}