{"id":38416,"date":"2025-09-23T04:42:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T08:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/michael-kim-first-american-to-win-french-open-in-53-years\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T04:42:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T08:42:14","slug":"michael-kim-first-american-to-win-french-open-in-53-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/golf\/michael-kim-first-american-to-win-french-open-in-53-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Kim: First American to Win French Open in 53 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Michael Kim Wins the French Open: Epic Victory in Paris<\/h2>\n\nIn an exciting day of golf, Michael Kim, from the United States, won the French Open. The player achieved a crucial victory with a 15-foot par putt on the last hole, securing his first world title in seven years.\n\nKim, who was ranked 64th, finished the round with an impressive 65 strokes, six under par, ending the week with a total of 16 under par. His last victory had been in 2018 at the John Deere Classic on the PGA Tour.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I went blank when that putt went in.<\/p><cite>Michael Kim<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe competition was intense, with Elvis Smylie of Australia and Ko Jeong-weon of France, both with rounds of 65 strokes, sharing second place.\n\nFor his part, Brooks Koepka, who started the final round at the top, failed to keep up the pace, finishing in fourth position with a round of 68 strokes.\n\nKim also made history by becoming the first American to win the French Open in 53 years, since Barry Jaeckel achieved it in 1972. Walter Hagen and Byron Nelson are other American players who have won this prestigious title.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Kim Wins the French Open: Epic Victory in Paris In an exciting day of golf, Michael Kim, from the United States, won the French Open. The player achieved a crucial victory with a 15-foot par putt on the last hole, securing his first world title in seven years. Kim, who was ranked 64th, finished [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[8994,813,163,9026],"class_list":{"0":"post-38416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-brooks-koepka","9":"tag-french-open","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-michael-kim"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}