{"id":242261,"date":"2025-11-03T23:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T23:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/242261\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T23:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T23:46:11","slug":"tom-mckibbin-hong-kong-open-win-secures-masters-and-open-qualification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/242261\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom McKibbin: Hong Kong Open win secures Masters and Open qualification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tom McKibbin claimed victory at the Hong Kong Open on Sunday to qualify for the Masters for the first time and secure his place for The Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leading from round one, the 22-year-old Holywood golfer was consistent throughout as he triumphed in the prestigious Asian Tour event at Fanling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McKibbin, who plays on the LIV Golf Tour and had a past win on the European Tour in 2023, began his challenge in superb fashion by shooting an official course record 60 on Thursday which set the tone for his week<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He maintained his lead going into Sunday&#8217;s final round by one shot on MJ Maguire, shooting a final-round 63 to finish on 27 under par in warm and overcast conditions, which included eight birdies with five on the back nine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I played some of the best golf I&#8217;ve ever played, so to shoot those scores around here is pretty special,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;For a tournament with so much history behind it and great players who have won this tournament, to have the scoring record is pretty special and it&#8217;s something that will live with me forever.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I dreamt of doing this since I was a young kid, and they come true if you train hard enough.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom McKibbin claimed victory at the Hong Kong Open on Sunday to qualify for the Masters for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-242261","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242261","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=242261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}