{"id":68621,"date":"2025-08-14T09:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T09:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/68621\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T09:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T09:03:07","slug":"fahey-stokes-home-hopes-in-boys-amateur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/68621\/","title":{"rendered":"Fahey stokes home hopes in Boys\u2019 Amateur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doyle hopes<br \/>\nJohn Doyle gave Ireland another runner in the race when he needed 20 holes to see of Japan\u2019s Kinjaro Kato. No Irish player has won the Boys\u2019 title since 1986.<br \/>\nKris Kim\u2019s dream of winning a second championship is on course after he eased to a 5&amp;3 victory over Sweden\u2019s Melker Bohlin to book his place in the second round.<br \/>\nKim, winner of the 2023 Boys\u2019 Amateur at Ganton Golf Club, was never behind in the 15 holes it took him to better Bohlin. The Wentworth Golf Club member stamped his authority on the match early when he won the first two holes. He did lose the third to a birdie but never looked like losing any holes after that.<br \/>\n\u201cI was good today, I didn\u2019t make a single bogey, unlike my two qualifying rounds, so that was pleasing,\u201d Kim said. \u201cI was really solid.\u201d<br \/>\nKim bid<br \/>\nPlaying just 15 holes was just what Kim was looking for if he\u2019s to match his 2023 victory.<br \/>\nHe added, \u201cGetting ahead in the first few holes is important in match play. Winning early is always good, especially since this can be a long week. It helps with my stamina because it\u2019s easy to get tired in later rounds. The more holes you play, the more stress you feel. So not having to play 18 holes is a bonus.\u201d Kim faces Italy\u2019s Bruno Frontero in round two.<br \/>\nJust one American has won the Boys\u2019 Amateur since its inception in 1921. Stuart Scheftel holds that honour. He triumphed in 1928.<br \/>\nKuan Zhou has an chance to end 97 winless years for the red, white and blue this week. Like Fahey and Kim, he had a relatively easy passage through to the second round. The American ran out a 5&amp;3 victor over France\u2019s Oscar Couilleau, recent winner of the Monroe Invitational in the USA. Zhou won despite not feeling too confident early on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Doyle hopes John Doyle gave Ireland another runner in the race when he needed 20 holes to see&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-68621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68621","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=68621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}