{"id":171443,"date":"2025-12-07T03:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T03:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/171443\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T03:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T03:40:09","slug":"2025-australian-open-golf-day-4-live-updates-from-royal-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/171443\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Australian Open Golf Day 4: Live updates from Royal Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Championship Sunday at Royal Melbourne is set to be a thriller, with a resurgent Cameron Smith headlining a jam-packed leaderboard and a chasing pack all eyeing the Stonehaven Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/golf\/story\/_\/id\/47209056\/2025-australian-open-golf-round-3-royal-melbourne-rory-mcilroy-min-woo-lee-live-scores-updates-leaderboard-highlights-tee-s\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/r1585504_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen slept on a two-shot lead at -14, but with three players poised at -12, another at -11, and a trio lurking at -10, the Australian Open is perfectly primed for a big sandbelt finish.<\/p>\n<p>Rory McIlroy sits at -5 and all but out of the running for the title, but the biggest name in the field still remains a major drawcard.<\/p>\n<p>Stay up to date with all the key moments, highlights, and plenty more below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Championship Sunday at Royal Melbourne is set to be a thriller, with a resurgent Cameron Smith headlining a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-171443","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}