{"id":461769,"date":"2026-02-08T13:11:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T13:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/461769\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T13:11:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T13:11:15","slug":"hong-kong-golfers-struggle-as-korean-cho-woo-young-wins-philippine-golf-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/461769\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong golfers struggle as Korean Cho Woo-young wins Philippine Golf Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Hong Kong golfers had a tournament to forget at the Philippine Golf Championship, an Asian Tour event that was won by South Korean Cho Woo-young on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The highest finisher from the city was Jason Hak Shun-yat at 68, with Taichi Kho and Matthew Cheung failing to even make the cut.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The victory at Wack Wack Golf &amp; Country Club in Manila was the first for Cho on the Asian Tour.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Korean held off the challenge of Thailand\u2019s Pavit Tangkamolprasert to win the tournament by four shots.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Overnight leader Karandeep Kochhar of India dropped down to fourth, with Travis Smyth of Australia finishing third.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Cho scored a final round five-under-par 67, for a four-round total of 11-under par at the first tournament of the Asian Tour season.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The win at the Wack Wack Golf &amp; Country Club was Cho Woo-young\u2019s first on the Asian Tour. Photo: AFP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ff96c82d-32d0-4b22-b1ab-deac530f9773_a07c0224.jpg\" title=\"The win at the Wack Wack Golf &amp; Country Club was Cho Woo-young\u2019s first on the Asian Tour. Photo: AFP\"\/>The win at the Wack Wack Golf &amp; Country Club was Cho Woo-young\u2019s first on the Asian Tour. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hong Kong golfers had a tournament to forget at the Philippine Golf Championship, an Asian Tour event that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[85521,2840,188708,49,48,188709,622,15674,1799,188711,188707,188714,77851,188710,188712,188713,82,85517,3592],"class_list":["post-461769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-asian-tour","tag-australia","tag-bharath-classic","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cho-woo-young","tag-golf","tag-hong-kong","tag-india","tag-jason-hak-shun-yat","tag-karandeep-kochhar","tag-korean-pga-tour","tag-manila","tag-matthew-cheung","tag-new-zealand-open","tag-philippine-golf-championship","tag-sports","tag-taichi-kho","tag-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461769","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=461769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}