{"id":736752,"date":"2026-06-14T19:17:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T19:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/736752\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T19:17:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T19:17:21","slug":"hong-kongs-taichi-kho-beats-bubba-watson-to-claim-morocco-crown-and-biggest-win-of-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/736752\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s Taichi Kho beats Bubba Watson to claim Morocco crown and biggest win of career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Taichi Kho kept his nerve and his inner-child in check as he held off a late charge from Bubba Watson to claim the biggest win of his career on Sunday at the International Series Morocco.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Hongkonger birdied the 72nd hole at Royal Golf Dar Es Salam to finish on 19-under-par and secure a stunning one-shot victory over the two-time Masters champion, who was one of his childhood heroes.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Thai duo Suteepat Prateeptienchai and Jazz Janewattananond finished in a tie for third at 15 under, while Australian Elvis Smylie, winner of LIV Golf Riyadh earlier this year, Ian Snyman, Kieran Vincent and Takanori Konishi shared fifth place a stroke further back.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Already in the history books as the first golfer from the city to win on the Tour after his World City Championship triumph in 2023, and the first to take home Asian Games gold, Kho said his latest victory had come after a year of \u201chardships and a bit of adversity\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Before this weekend, the 25-year-old\u2019s best finish on the Tour this season was a tie for 13th at last month\u2019s Kolon Korea Open, although a week ago he finished second on the Japan Golf Tour after losing in a play-off.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Victory in Morocco was Taichi Kho\u2019s second on the Asian Tour. Photo: Asian Tour\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/25c3c1be-b3a6-4af0-9e43-4c597cfd8567_7c787a7b.jpg\" title=\"Victory in Morocco was Taichi Kho\u2019s second on the Asian Tour. Photo: Asian Tour\"\/>Victory in Morocco was Taichi Kho\u2019s second on the Asian Tour. Photo: Asian Tour<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cGolf\u2019s a funny game,\u201d Kho said. \u201cIt really gives and takes, and I was very fortunate the last couple of weeks to be on the good side of it. I just have a lot of gratitude towards the game itself, the people around me, the people who make it possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taichi Kho kept his nerve and his inner-child in check as he held off a late charge from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[85521,2840,23462,49,48,622,264754,15674,264753,2454,264755,264752,119053,21130,15467,5685,82,85517,28697],"class_list":["post-736752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-asian-tour","tag-australia","tag-bubba-watson","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-hangzhou-games","tag-hong-kong","tag-international-series-morocco","tag-japan","tag-japan-golf-tour","tag-liv-golf-riyadh","tag-masters","tag-morocco","tag-rabat","tag-south-africa","tag-sports","tag-taichi-kho","tag-zimbabwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736752","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=736752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}