{"id":152772,"date":"2025-09-22T08:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T08:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/152772\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T08:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T08:49:08","slug":"kim-holds-his-nerve-to-claim-french-open-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/152772\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim holds his nerve to claim French Open win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Kim produced late fireworks to claim his first worldwide victory in over seven years at the FedEx Open de France.<\/p>\n<p>The American made back-to-back birdies at the 16th and 17th to move into the outright lead with one hole remaining before draining his clutch par putt from 16 feet to seal a one-shot win on 16 under par.<\/p>\n<p>His late heroics denied early clubhouse leader and home favourite Jeong weon Ko the chance to contest a play-off after the French crowd had roared him to a closing 65.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/results\/golf\/european-tour-1\/24098\/open-de-france-896025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LEADERBOARD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ko finished alongside Australia&#8217;s Elvis Smylie in a tie for second on 15 under, one clear of five-time major champion Brooks Koepka.<\/p>\n<p>Kim made a total of six birdies in his spotless final-round 65 to clinch his first title since the 2018 John Deere Classic on the PGA Tour.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;I&#8217;m just so happy and grateful that I was able to come out with the victory.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve had a really good year on the PGA Tour this year. This feels like the perfect cherry on top and I hope to continue this throughout my career.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>England&#8217;s Marcus Armitage finished in a tie for fifth on 13 under after his 68.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Kim produced late fireworks to claim his first worldwide victory in over seven years at the FedEx&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-152772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}