{"id":35472,"date":"2025-09-21T20:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T20:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/35472\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T20:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T20:26:08","slug":"michael-kim-wins-open-de-france-with-first-title-in-seven-years-ryan-fox-finishes-14th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/35472\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Kim wins Open de France with first title in seven years, Ryan Fox finishes 14th"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Michael Kim of the United States poses with the trophy following victory at FedEx Open de France 2025. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

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Michael Kim birdied the 16th and 17th and then sank a clutch putt on Sunday to edge Elvis Smylie and Ko Jeong-Weon by a shot at the Open de France.<\/p>\n

Kim, a 32-year-old American, pulled ahead at Saint-Nom-La-Breteche near Paris with his two late birdies.<\/p>\n

\n He found a bunker on
\n the last but chipped on to the green and holed from 5m to save par.\n <\/p>\n

That sealed Kim\u2019s long-awaited win and deprived the home crowd of the chance of seeing Frenchman Ko in a playoff.<\/p>\n

Kiwi Ryan Fox saved his best round for the final day, shooting a 68 to finish in a share of 14th place at seven-under. Fellow Kiwi Daniel Hillier finished in 56th and remains one spot outside the top 10 in the season standings that receive PGA Tour cards for 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AFP 21 Sep, 2025 06:22 PM2 mins to read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[33036,33038,33039,33037,33041,24828,11746,9379,33035,1888,4131,1221,78,33044,12125,5494,111,139,69,5493,33042,5128,33040,202,10117,33043,213,10809,107,2563,6202,102,1530],"class_list":["post-35472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-14th","tag-16th","tag-17th","tag-birdied","tag-clutch","tag-de","tag-edge","tag-elvis","tag-finishes","tag-first","tag-fox","tag-france","tag-in","tag-jeongweon","tag-kim","tag-michael","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-open","tag-putt","tag-ryan","tag-sank","tag-seven","tag-shot","tag-smylie","tag-sports","tag-sunday","tag-then","tag-title","tag-wins","tag-with","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35472","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=35472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}