{"id":503374,"date":"2026-06-30T21:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T21:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/503374\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T21:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T21:37:15","slug":"the-open-kazuma-kobori-qualifies-for-british-open-to-become-third-kiwi-in-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/503374\/","title":{"rendered":"The Open: Kazuma Kobori qualifies for British Open to become third Kiwi in field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Kobori shone in wet conditions that broke a recent heatwave across the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt wasn\u2019t ideal but I got through it. After I finished, it seemed like a sunshine and rainbow [appeared]&#8230;definitely challenging in the rain and wind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI\u2019m hitting good off the tee and putting it pretty good. So when you do those two things, life\u2019s pretty good as a golfer,\u201d Kobori added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Masters winners Sergio Garcia and Danny Willett, with YouTube golfers Wesley and George Bryan all failed to qualify at the event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Kobori didn\u2019t have much time to celebrate, getting in a car with fellow Open qualifier Samuel Bairstow and catch a flight at nearby Manchester Airport, with an early tee time practice round at the BMW International Open in Munich.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">After recording a top 20 finish at the Italian Open over the weekend, Kobori will look to continue his form in Munich where he finished third last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kobori shone in wet conditions that broke a recent heatwave across the United Kingdom. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t ideal but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[74,6726,14801,18239,90820,36305,19345,5904,2082,78,18831,194,18832,1446,3234,111,139,69,5493,49639,45434,213,5433,223,3755,1961,1529,210,61,1865],"class_list":["post-503374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-after","tag-become","tag-british","tag-championship","tag-contingent","tag-extended","tag-field","tag-final","tag-for","tag-in","tag-kazuma","tag-kiwi","tag-kobori","tag-making","tag-months","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-open","tag-qualifies","tag-qualifying","tag-sports","tag-stage","tag-the","tag-third","tag-this","tag-three","tag-through","tag-to","tag-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503374","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=503374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}