{"id":729508,"date":"2026-06-11T11:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T11:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/729508\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T11:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T11:16:10","slug":"golf-cooper-moore-selected-for-junior-presidents-cup-international-team-on-the-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/729508\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf: Cooper Moore selected for Junior Presidents Cup International team &#8211; On The Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"xRCtHSZoMFoDBmw\" style=\"display:none\">Moore will be one of 12 players to compete for the international team, with golfers from Japan, South Korea, China, Colombia, Thailand and Hong Kong also earning a place in the squad. <\/p>\n<p class=\"xRCtHSZoMFoDBmw\" style=\"display:none\">The junior version of the biennial event was established in 2017. So far, the US team has won every edition. <\/p>\n<p class=\"xRCtHSZoMFoDBmw\" style=\"display:none\">Moore was one of 11 players selected, with the 12th to be awarded to the leading player on the WAGR list as of July 30 who is not otherwise qualified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"xRCtHSZoMFoDBmw\" style=\"display:none\">Moore\u2019s selection ensures a New Zealand athlete will be involved in the event for a third year in succession after Joshua Bai was selected in 2022 and 2024. Jayden Ford was also selected in 2022. <\/p>\n<p class=\"xRCtHSZoMFoDBmw\" style=\"display:none\">It\u2019s the latest accolade for the Kiwi golfer, who has had a breakout year in the professional ranks with a runner-up finish at the New Zealand PGA Championship in February. He won his maiden title on the Charles Tour at the 2025 Mount Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"xRCtHSZoMFoDBmw\" style=\"display:none\">Last year, Moore was one of six selected to represent New Zealand at the 2025 Toyota Junior Golf World Cup in Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moore will be one of 12 players to compete for the international team, with golfers from Japan, South&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,18084,46866,3933,580,755,38772,3389,84993,8835,65094,2652,5948,154069,59910,159984,85,353169,3018,320,8045],"class_list":["post-729508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-biggest","tag-cooper","tag-cup","tag-for","tag-golf","tag-himself","tag-international","tag-junior","tag-kiwi","tag-moore","tag-on","tag-place","tag-presidents","tag-secured","tag-selected","tag-sports","tag-stages","tag-team","tag-the","tag-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729508","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=729508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}