{"id":308599,"date":"2023-06-16T02:28:08","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=308599"},"modified":"2023-06-16T05:58:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T05:58:39","slug":"perfect-shot-makes-history-for-french-golfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=308599","title":{"rendered":"'Perfect shot' makes history for French golfer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matthieu Pavon made a little French history in the US Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Pavon became the first player from France to make a hole-in-one at this major, hitting a gap wedge that spun back into the cup on the 124-yard 15th hole.<\/p>\n

"The ball went straight where I wanted," he said.<\/p>\n

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"So after getting that hole-in-one it's just like a bit of luck, but that shot from the strike to the end was just a perfect shot.<\/p>\n

"I don't know how many players have got a hole-in-one in a US Open. It's quite cool to be part of this group of people and it's my first as a professional."<\/p>\n

\"French<\/p>\n

The only French player previously with an ace in a major was Thomas Levet in the 2009 British Open at Turnberry.<\/p>\n

Pavon wasn't the only player with a one on the card in the first round. Sam Burns also aced the 15th hole at LACC.<\/p>\n

Burns' shot bounced three times and rolled into the cup.<\/p>\n

He tossed his sand wedge backward over his head with both hands, high-fived his caddie, took off his cap to acknowledge the gallery, and then continued high-fiving or fist-bumping everyone else in the group.<\/p>\n

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Matthieu Pavon made a little French history in the US Open. Pavon became the first player from France to make a hole-in-one at this major, […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":308601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=308599"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308602,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308599\/revisions\/308602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/308601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=308599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=308599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=308599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}