{"id":631971,"date":"2026-04-26T12:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T12:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/631971\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T12:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T12:03:10","slug":"cameron-john-qualifies-for-open-championship-as-singapore-open-runner-up-australian-golf-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/631971\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameron John qualifies for Open Championship as Singapore Open runner-up \u2013 Australian Golf Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Photo: Graham Uden\/Asian Tour]<\/p>\n<p>Korean Jeongwoo Ham and Australia\u2019s Cameron John have qualified for the 154th Open Championship at Royal Birkdale through the Asian Tour\u2019s Singapore Open.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.australiangolfdigest.com.au\/cameron-john-completes-three-win-season-at-the-national-tournament\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cameron John completes three-win season at\u00a0The National Tournament<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ham will make his debut in The Open after winning the Singapore Open by two shots with a 16-under-par total of 268. John, who will also make his debut at Royal Birkdale, earned his spot after finishing second at 14-under-par.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cameron John was ranked 850th in the world at the start of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>He is right now hunting a 3rd win this year, a 4th in 5 months and has all but wrapped up a spot at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheOpen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@TheOpen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A win would likely result in a World Ranking of close to 200. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OcXRhtZ5Zt\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/OcXRhtZ5Zt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tony Webeck (@TonyWebeck) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TonyWebeck\/status\/2048327528218251316?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 26, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Singapore Open is part of the Open Qualifying Series that grants high finishers a path directly into golf\u2019s oldest championship. Victoria\u2019s John, who won three times during the PGA Tour of Australasia season just completed, joins fellow Australians Adam Scott (Australian Open) and Lucas Herbert (New Zealand Open) to qualify this way.<\/p>\n<p>Already exempt into this year\u2019s Open Championship are Cameron Smith (former champion), Travis Smyth (PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit winner) and Elvis Smylie (top-25 on the 2025 Race to Dubai, DP World Tour).<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Photo: Graham Uden\/Asian Tour] Korean Jeongwoo Ham and Australia\u2019s Cameron John have qualified for the 154th Open Championship&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[121913,64,63,172572,755,306026,2503,186599,115133,186600,306027,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-631971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-asian-tour","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-cameron-john","12":"tag-golf","13":"tag-jeongwoo-ham","14":"tag-open-championship","15":"tag-open-qualifying-series","16":"tag-ra","17":"tag-royal-birkdale-golf-club","18":"tag-singapore-open","19":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631971","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=631971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}