\u201cI\u2019ve heard plenty of good things about Royal Auckland and Grange and it will be great to finally get the chance to play there, especially in tournament conditions,\u201d Jones said. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a great concept bringing players from Australia, New Zealand and Japan together, and after seeing how successful the first tournament was, I\u2019m looking forward to being part of it this time around.\u201d<\/p>\n
PGA Tour of Australasia general manager of tournaments and global tour relationships, Nick Dastey, said Jones was a \u201cfantastic\u201d addition to the field as the tournament looked to build on the foundations laid earlier this year. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe will bring plenty of experience to what we expect will be another strong international field, and we\u2019re particularly excited to give New Zealand fans the opportunity to see Matt play in Auckland for the first time,\u201d Dastey said. <\/p>\n
\u201cFollowing the success of the inaugural championship, we\u2019re looking forward to welcoming players and fans back to Royal Auckland and Grange for another terrific week of golf.\u201d<\/p>\n
The tournament now forms a three-week swing of high-level golf in New Zealand. <\/p>\n
The Japan-Australasia Championship sits in the middle week of that swing, with the NZ PGA Championship at Paraparaumu Beach Golf Club from February 11-14 and the New Zealand Open at Millbrook Resort from February 25-28. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019ve heard plenty of good things about Royal Auckland and Grange and it will be great to finally…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[51,18239,18836,2223,8231,19345,2082,18126,167314,167310,78,2992,167311,2176,30506,111,139,69,90,18238,6744,72726,9855,5652,303059,213,208,47496,10508],"class_list":["post-615168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-auckland","tag-championship","tag-club","tag-confirmed","tag-event","tag-field","tag-for","tag-golf","tag-grange","tag-handa","tag-in","tag-isps","tag-japanaustralasia","tag-jones","tag-matt","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-pga","tag-place","tag-prepares","tag-royal","tag-signs","tag-sophomore","tag-sports","tag-tour","tag-twotime","tag-winner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615168","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=615168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}