{"id":303188,"date":"2025-12-07T12:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T12:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/303188\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T12:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T12:06:07","slug":"australian-open-rasmus-neergaard-petersen-beats-cameron-smith-on-final-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/303188\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open: Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen beats Cameron Smith on final hole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">World number two McIlroy called on organisers to reschedule the tournament to help attract a stronger field next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">World number one Scottie Scheffler opted to play in the Hero World Challenge in New York instead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I would love to have a few more players come down and play, but it&#8217;s hard,&#8221; said McIlroy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There are three tournaments going on in the schedule this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There needs to be conversations had with people much more important than me that set the schedules.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Australian Open marked the end of McIlroy&#8217;s season, which brought a long-awaited Masters title, a seventh Race to Dubai success and a successful Ryder Cup defence with Europe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m excited to have little bit of downtime, finally reflect on everything, maybe watch a few of the tournaments back. I&#8217;ve not really let myself do that too much,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Looking forward to the Christmas break and put the feet up, a few glasses of wine and think back on about what an unbelievable year it&#8217;s been.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World number two McIlroy called on organisers to reschedule the tournament to help attract a stronger field next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-303188","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\/303188","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=303188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}