{"id":314710,"date":"2025-11-28T17:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T17:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/314710\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T17:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T17:20:10","slug":"cricket-anyone-yes-between-two-aussies-at-the-australian-pga-golf-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/314710\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket anyone? Yes, between two Aussies at the Australian PGA golf tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/KZDC-FM-DefaultThumbnail-640x400-1.jpg\" class=\"object-cover post-img-link\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\"\/>\t<\/p>\n<p>BRISBANE, Australia (AP) \u2014 With the high-profile Ashes cricket series between Australia and England underway, a pair of Australian golfers helped highlight the sport during the second round of the Australian PGA Championship on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Australia <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ashes-cricket-australia-england-b388d0793b35bd1665e433969faeaf0a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">leads the five-test cricket series 1-0<\/a> after a win in the first match ending earlier this week in Perth, which was possibly why Adam Scott and Min Woo Lee were happy to be making a reference to cricket at Royal Queensland on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>With the big-hitting Scott on the tee at the par-4 12th hole, the group on the green which included Lee waved Scott\u2019s group up to tee off. Scott proceeded to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PGAofAustralia\/status\/1994280967393976631?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1994280967393976631%7Ctwgr%5E4831f68dc40077359c49820ca9d063e661fe85b9%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fgolf.com.au%2Fnews%2Flive-blog-bmw-australian-pga\" rel=\"nofollow\">drive the green<\/a> on the 296-meter (323-yard) hole.<\/p>\n<p>When the ball bounced on to the green, Lee used his putter in an obvious cricket stance in a comical attempt to bat away Scott\u2019s ball.<\/p>\n<p>Scott birdied the hole to finish with a 68. Lee had a 66 and both were among the leaders after two rounds.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP golf: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/golf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/golf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRISBANE, Australia (AP) \u2014 With the high-profile Ashes cricket series between Australia and England underway, a pair of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-314710","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\/314710","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=314710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}