{"id":21924,"date":"2018-08-03T08:05:31","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T08:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/6-year-old-new-zealander-makes-hole-in-one-in-american-tournament\/"},"modified":"2018-08-03T08:05:31","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T08:05:31","slug":"6-year-old-new-zealander-makes-hole-in-one-in-american-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/6-year-old-new-zealander-makes-hole-in-one-in-american-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"6-year-old New Zealander makes hole-in-one in American tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-8487\" src=\"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.holaincompany.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/images_Actual2018_Yuri.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"593\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/images_Actual2018_Yuri.png 593w, https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/images_Actual2018_Yuri-300x196.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some golfers never get a hole-in-one, but New Zealand\u2019s Yuri Lee has done it before her seventh birthday. The 6-year-old from Auckland accomplished the feat during a tournament in the United States.   <br \/>Yuri, whose golfing idol is compatriot Lydia Ko, started playing golf a year ago after she was made a member of Golf Warehouse for her sixth birthday, said her mother, Ulliana Lee.<br \/>Yuri had seen Ko play in a couple of tournaments, and wanted to try to follow in his footsteps in the sport.<br \/>\u201cShe\u2019s been practicing a lot and she\u2019s very passionate, so we\u2019re just trying to support her,\u201d Ulliana said.  <br \/>Yuri, who plays with her grandparents on weekends at a par 3 course in Greenlane, participated in several U.S. tournaments last month, placing third in the IMG Academy World Junior Championship and second in the FCG International Junior Golf Championship.  <br \/>It was at the San Diego golf course where she made her first hole-in-one. Her father was caddying with her.<br \/>Ulliana said Yuri was so excited that she was grinning from ear to ear when she told him, \u201cMom, Mom, I made hole-in-one!\u201d<br \/>\u201cBeing in the middle of the tournament also made it even more exciting,\u201d said her parent.<br \/>San Diego Golf Club recognized Yuri\u2019s achievement with a certificate. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some golfers never get a hole-in-one, but New Zealand\u2019s Yuri Lee has done it before her seventh birthday. The 6-year-old from Auckland accomplished the feat during a tournament in the United States. Yuri, whose golfing idol is compatriot Lydia Ko, started playing golf a year ago after she was made a member of Golf Warehouse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}