{"id":377217,"date":"2026-01-18T17:26:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T17:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/377217\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T17:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T17:26:14","slug":"lydia-hall-welsh-golfer-wins-vic-open-title-on-wpga-australasia-tour-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/377217\/","title":{"rendered":"Lydia Hall: Welsh golfer wins Vic Open title on WPGA Australasia tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales&#8217; Lydia Hall took her fourth WPGA Tour of Australasia title with victory in the Vic Open at 13th Beach Golf Links.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 38-year-old from Bridgend finished four shots clear of Australians Kelsey Bennett and Kathryn Norris.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hall, whose three previous wins in Australia had been over the sprint distance of 36 holes, finished level par for the 72-hole event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m really pleased to kick the season off with the win. First time for everything. It&#8217;s been 18 years,&#8221; said Hall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Obviously an historic event as well. It&#8217;s definitely one that I&#8217;ve always wanted to have on my CV at the end of my career and yeah, really pleased to get it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wales&#8217; Lydia Hall took her fourth WPGA Tour of Australasia title with victory in the Vic Open at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-377217","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\/377217","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=377217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}