{"id":36281,"date":"2025-12-08T01:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T01:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/hero-world-challenge-japans-hideki-matsuyama-beats-alex-noren-in-play-off\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T01:13:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T01:13:14","slug":"hero-world-challenge-japans-hideki-matsuyama-beats-alex-noren-in-play-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/hero-world-challenge-japans-hideki-matsuyama-beats-alex-noren-in-play-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Hero World Challenge: Japan&#8217;s Hideki Matsuyama beats Alex Noren in play-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Japan&#8217;s Hideki Matsuyama beat Sweden&#8217;s Alex Noren in a one-hole play-off to win his second Hero World Challenge title in Albany.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Matsuyama, 33, birdied the replayed 18th hole to take victory at the Tiger Woods-hosted event and claim the $1,000,000 (\u00a3750,000) prize pot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both players had finished with eight-under-par rounds of 64 to end tied on 22-under on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The third round began with five players tied for the lead, but it was Austrian Josef Straka who led two-time defending champion Scottie Scheffler by one shot heading into the final round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Straka carded 68 to finish one shot back in third position, while world number one Scheffler finished tied fourth with fellow American JJ Spaun at 20-under.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England&#8217;s Justin Rose was sixth at 18-under after completing his best round of the week with 66.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/golf\/articles\/crmd408jw10o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s Hideki Matsuyama beat Sweden&#8217;s Alex Noren in a one-hole play-off to win his second Hero World Challenge title in Albany. Matsuyama, 33, birdied the replayed 18th hole to take victory at the Tiger Woods-hosted event and claim the $1,000,000 (\u00a3750,000) prize pot. Both players had finished with eight-under-par rounds of 64 to end tied [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36283,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36281\/revisions\/36283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}