{"id":394931,"date":"2022-12-01T10:16:41","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T15:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=394931"},"modified":"2022-12-01T10:18:33","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T15:18:33","slug":"micheluzzi-leads-australian-open","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/micheluzzi-leads-australian-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Micheluzzi leads Australian Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local professional David Micheluzzi began the ISPS HANDA Australian Open in style by opening up a three-shot lead after day one, his lowest ever DP World Tour round.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian carded a 63 at Victoria Golf Club to get to seven under to lead the way from countryman Matthew Griffin and Kiwi Josh Geary, who was playing Kingston Heath Golf Club.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Opening round 63 for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidMicheluzzi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@DavidMicheluzzi<\/a> \u270d\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AusOpenGolf?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#AusOpenGolf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; DP World Tour (@DPWorldTour) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DPWorldTour\/status\/1598133860381892609?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old has enjoyed an impressive start to the season on home soil, a recent winner on the PGA Tour of Australasia, lifting the trophy at the CKB WA PGA Championship presented by TX Civil &amp; Logistics and then last week on the DP World Tour in Brisbane he secured a maiden top ten.<\/p>\n<div class=\"story-block\">\n<p>\u201cThe last probably few weeks or the win in WA, that third day and the last day was pretty much how I\u2019ve been hitting it the last five months,&#8221; Micheluzzi said. &#8220;I hadn\u2019t played amazing golf over the last stretch, even last week wasn\u2019t amazing, just plodded around.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"story-block\">\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve just gotten better at everything. I feel like my course management\u2019s really good all the time. I know how to think around a golf course. Just hitting it better, just comfortable with playing these events now. I think this is what, our seventh event in the space of nine weeks, so yeah, just being comfortable in the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"story-block\">Australian youngster Grace Kim led the women&#8217;s component of the inaugural dual gender event by two strokes from South Korea&#8217;s former world number one Shin Jiyai and major winner Hannah Green after a blazing start in her seven-under 66 at Kingston Heath.<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;As the birdies kept coming, the more nervous I got!&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Grace Kim broke the course record at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KingstonHeathGC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@KingstonHeathGC<\/a> with an opening round 66 \ud83d\ude4c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AusOpenGolf?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#AusOpenGolf<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Vg1gbIW4gp\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Vg1gbIW4gp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; DP World Tour (@DPWorldTour) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DPWorldTour\/status\/1598168762590429186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Australia&#8217;s national open is breaking new ground this week with 300 players taking part across the men&#8217;s, women&#8217;s and All Abilities championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local professional David Micheluzzi began the ISPS HANDA Australian Open in style by opening up a three-shot lead after day one, his lowest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":394932,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[],"news_category":[16713],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Grace Kim led the women's component of the inaugural dual gender event","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394931"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=394931"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=394931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}