{"id":218697,"date":"2025-10-16T21:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T21:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/218697\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T21:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T21:45:08","slug":"prodigy-koala-karl-vilips-joins-rory-mcilroy-min-woo-lee-cameron-smith-adam-scott-in-field-at-royal-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/218697\/","title":{"rendered":"Prodigy \u2018Koala\u2019 Karl Vilips joins Rory McIlroy, Min Woo Lee, Cameron Smith, Adam Scott in field at Royal Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vilips was born in Jakarta and moved to Australia with his father, Paul, when he was young.<\/p>\n<p>A golf addict from an early age, Vilips was swinging metal clubs by the age of four. By six, he finished seventh in the junior world championships with a half-set of clubs.<\/p>\n<p>His dedication has been an attribute that has set him apart from other golf prodigies, according to people close to him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKarl is one of the young stars of world golf, with a bright future ahead of him. We\u2019re excited to watch him showcase his talents on home soil in front of huge crowds at Royal Melbourne,\u201d Golf Australia boss James Sutherland said.<\/p>\n<p>Loading<\/p>\n<p>Fellow entrant Marc Leishman is taking an unusual route in his preparation, headlining the WA Open at Mount Lawley this week.<\/p>\n<p>Leishman will also contest the Australian PGA at Royal Queensland in the last week of November.<\/p>\n<p>News, results and expert analysis from the weekend of sport are sent every Monday. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/link\/follow-20170101-p56jal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for our Sport newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vilips was born in Jakarta and moved to Australia with his father, Paul, when he was young. A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-218697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218697","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=218697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}