{"id":323625,"date":"2025-12-03T23:02:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T23:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/323625\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T23:02:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T23:02:14","slug":"day-1-leaderboard-tee-times-results-highlights-simple-handshake-that-rattled-mcilroy-after-2013-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/323625\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 1 leaderboard, tee times, results, highlights; Simple handshake that rattled McIlroy after 2013 victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Aussie stars are painting a picture of sheer consistency out on the course at Royal Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>Cam Smith is absolutely locked in! He&#8217;s sitting pretty at -3 after eight holes, and he hasn&#8217;t dropped a single shot yet. That puts him right in a four-way tie for the lead.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cameron Smith on the 16th hole during day one of the Australian Open 2025.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/58d5190fdfacc885fe10b88976173164f0b44a1a.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"d40ab0ad209f9332-text d40ab0ad209f9332-body-2\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Cameron Smith on the 16th hole during day one of the Australian Open 2025.\u00a0Graham Denholm via getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Min Woo Lee is also keeping his card pristine with zero dropped shots, bagging two birdies through the back nine.<\/p>\n<p>Playing alongside him, Adam Scott is also well in the mix at -2, courtesy of an impressive eagle, a birdie, and just one bogey so far.<\/p>\n<p>Elvis Smylie is on fire at -2, stringing together a fantastic hat-trick of birdies at holes 13, 14, and 15 \u2014his group kicked off the day on the 10th.<\/p>\n<p>Fellow Australian David Micheluzzi, who is also off to a flyer, draining three birdies in his opening six holes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Aussie stars are painting a picture of sheer consistency out on the course at Royal Melbourne. Cam&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-323625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}