{"id":394974,"date":"2022-12-04T03:58:58","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T08:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=394974"},"modified":"2022-12-04T06:08:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T11:08:59","slug":"polands-meronk-wins-australian-open","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/polands-meronk-wins-australian-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland&#8217;s Meronk wins Australian Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Scott\u2019s hopes of a second Australian Open triumph crumbled on Melbourne\u2019s \u2018Sandbelt\u2019 as towering Polish trailblazer Adrian Meronk coolly closed out a five-stroke win in style at Victoria Golf Club on Sunday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is golf.<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\/QF0GZ4UmJL\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/QF0GZ4UmJL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Australian Open (@AusOpenGolf) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AusOpenGolf\/status\/1599328074989830144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 4, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Pole, who shot a four-under 66 and was nearly flawless on a testing day, was nearly bowled over by his thrilled girlfriend when she charged onto the green and leapt into his arms in celebration.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">How we made history.<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\/ha5pSfYjQy\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ha5pSfYjQy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Australian Open (@AusOpenGolf) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AusOpenGolf\/status\/1599338143517659138?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 4, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To finish like that on the 18th hole, it&#8217;s unreal,&#8221; said 29-year-old Meronk, his country&#8217;s first winner on the European tour.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[Scott] was always my role model growing up&#8230; but beating him in the final group in front of the big crowds in Australia is just quite an unbelievable experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meronk&#8217;s ranking boost should be enough for him to become the first to qualify for the Masters.<\/p>\n<p>Third-placed Min Woo Lee won exemption to the British Open along with fellow Australian Haydn Barron and Spain&#8217;s Alejandro Canizares, who finished joint fourth on seven-under.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa&#8217;s Ashleigh Buhai won the women&#8217;s component of the inaugural dual gender event by a stroke from Shin Jiyai, the South Korean missing a five-foot birdie putt that would have forced a playoff.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ash_simon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ash_simon<\/a> is the first person to win the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AIGWomensOpen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@AIGWomensOpen<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AusOpenGolf?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#AusOpenGolf<\/a> in the same year since 2011 \ud83c\udfc6<\/p>\n<p>Her victory today even had a number of similarities to her Muirfield triumph in August.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iSwNJdWYJa\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/iSwNJdWYJa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Australian Open (@AusOpenGolf) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AusOpenGolf\/status\/1599313710195310593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 4, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Scott\u2019s hopes of a second Australian Open triumph crumbled on Melbourne\u2019s \u2018Sandbelt\u2019 as towering Polish trailblazer Adrian Meronk coolly closed out a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":394975,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17031,17036],"news_category":[16713,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"South Arica's Ashleigh Buhai takes women's crown","video":["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\/394974"}],"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=394974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394974"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=394974"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=394974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}