{"id":17930,"date":"2025-08-01T09:30:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T13:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/08\/01\/royal-porthcawl-ace-was-a-slam-dunk-by-steph-kyriacou-at-aig-womens-british-open\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T09:30:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T13:30:20","slug":"royal-porthcawl-ace-was-a-slam-dunk-by-steph-kyriacou-at-aig-womens-british-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/08\/01\/royal-porthcawl-ace-was-a-slam-dunk-by-steph-kyriacou-at-aig-womens-british-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Porthcawl Ace was a slam dunk by Steph Kyriacou at AIG Women&#8217;s British Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\"><media-oembed util-module-path=\"elements\/media\" provider-name=\"Twitter\" class=\"column ten-column no-gutter spacer-large\"><\/media-oembed><\/p>\n<p><em>(Editor&#8217;s note: Click here to see the second round live update from AIG Women&#8217;s British Open. Also, who&#8217;s close to making the cut? Follow along with the live AIG cut line tracker.)<\/em><\/p>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"600\" fluid=\"\" outstream=\"\" momentum=\"\"><\/partner-banner>\n<p>Steph Kyriacou&#8217;s tee shot on the eighth par 3 at Royal Porthcawl did not touch the grass on Friday. Instead, she flew straight to the cup at the 49th AIG Women&#8217;s British Open in a noisy moment.<\/p>\n<p>It marked Australia&#8217;s first ace in the LPGA, and she followed it with a birdie in the ninth and made a turn for 33. So far, from round two, Kyriaku has moved up the leaderboard and entered the top 20.<\/p>\n<p>This was the first women&#8217;s UK opening held at Royal Porte Call. Authorities have billed as the largest women&#8217;s sporting event ever held in Wales. Japan&#8217;s Yamashita Yu leads under 11 after a shining 7-under 65.<\/p>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" fluid=\"\" bottom=\"\" lazy=\"\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"390\" outstream=\"\"><\/partner-banner><lit-timestamp class=\"column ten-column no-gutter spacer-small\" slot=\"timestamp\" publishdate=\"2025-08-01 11:51:40 +0000 UTC\" updatedate=\"2025-08-01 12:08:05 +0000 UTC\"><\/lit-timestamp><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Editor&#8217;s note: Click here to see the second round live update from AIG Women&#8217;s British Open. Also, who&#8217;s close to making the cut? Follow along with the live AIG cut line tracker.) Steph Kyriacou&#8217;s tee shot on the eighth par 3 at Royal Porthcawl did not touch the grass on Friday. Instead, she flew straight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[17],"class_list":{"0":"post-17930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}