He finished last year ranked 19th on the Asian Tour Order of Merit with six top-10s.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m super excited to get to Auckland for the return of professional golf,\u201d Smyth said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve heard the golf course is immaculate and I\u2019ve never been to Auckland before so I\u2019m pumped.\u201d<\/p>\n
Koepka finished equal fifth in the Quinovic NZ PGA Championship at Paraparaumu Beach last week and had two top-10s on the Asian Tour in 2025.<\/p>\n
Nick Dastey, general manager of tournaments and global tour relationships for the Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia, said: \u201cWe are thrilled to welcome John, Chase and Travis to the first ISPS Handa Japan-Australasia Championship. Their inclusion adds significant weight to the field for the tour\u2019s return to Auckland.\u201d<\/p>\n
The ISPS Handa Japan-Australasia Championship completes a landmark three-week professional golf swing in New Zealand that began with last week\u2019s Quinovic NZ PGA and continues this week with the New Zealand Open presented by Sky Sport.<\/p>\n
All four rounds of the ISPS Handa Japan-Australasia Championship will be broadcast on Kayo, Foxtel and Sky Sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He finished last year ranked 19th on the Asian Tour Order of Merit with six top-10s. \u201cI\u2019m super…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[78109,27309,28119,6213,51,167312,18239,9436,18836,39789,67552,19345,18126,167314,167310,76912,2992,167311,5126,167313,3025,111,139,1536,69,9855,24503,213,5436,1529,61,208,196,4942,686,1533],"class_list":{"0":"post-305977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-accomplished","9":"tag-added","10":"tag-amp","11":"tag-asian","12":"tag-auckland","13":"tag-catlin","14":"tag-championship","15":"tag-chase","16":"tag-club","17":"tag-compete","18":"tag-competitors","19":"tag-field","20":"tag-golf","21":"tag-grange","22":"tag-handa","23":"tag-inaugural","24":"tag-isps","25":"tag-japanaustralasia","26":"tag-john","27":"tag-koepka","28":"tag-most","29":"tag-new-zealand","30":"tag-newzealand","31":"tag-next","32":"tag-nz","33":"tag-royal","34":"tag-smyth","35":"tag-sports","36":"tag-stars","37":"tag-three","38":"tag-to","39":"tag-tour","40":"tag-tours","41":"tag-travis","42":"tag-week","43":"tag-will"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305977","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=305977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}