{"id":323877,"date":"2025-12-03T00:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T00:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/323877\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T00:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T00:43:10","slug":"australian-open-which-stars-are-playing-in-golf-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/323877\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open: Which stars are playing in golf tournament?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Golfing superstar Rory McIlroy will lead a star-studded field in this week&#8217;s Australian Open at Royal Melbourne Golf Club.<\/p>\n<p>After David Puig won the Australian PGA Championship on Sunday, the foreign invasion Down Under continues with McIlroy fronting the charge.<\/p>\n<p>Several local hopes will also be in action, including Cameron Smith, Adam Scott, Min Woo Lee and Marc Leishman.<\/p>\n<p>Will the foreign raid on Australian golf continue or can a local talent salute at Black Rock?<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/golf\/news\/australian-pga-championship-which-stars-are-playing-golf-tournament\/c72d1b9d02aa393f05115e6a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Australian PGA Championship: Which stars are playing in golf tournament?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Confirmed stars at the Australian OpenRory McIlroyCameron SmithAdam ScottMin Woo LeeMarc LeishmanDavid PuigJoaquin NiemannCarlos OrtizSebastian MunozJosele BallesterMarco PengeVictor PerezJordan SmithYannick PaulRichie RamsayManuel ElviraWhen and where is the Australian Open<\/p>\n<p>The Australian Open will commence on Thursday, December 4, with the final round on Sunday, December 7.<\/p>\n<p>It will be played at Royal Melbourne Golf Club in Black Rock, Melbourne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Golfing superstar Rory McIlroy will lead a star-studded field in this week&#8217;s Australian Open at Royal Melbourne Golf&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-323877","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\/323877","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=323877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}