{"id":90354,"date":"2025-11-28T05:22:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T09:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/sebastian-garcia-leads-pga-in-brisbane-before-the-rain-smith-recovers-game\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T05:22:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T09:22:25","slug":"sebastian-garcia-leads-pga-in-brisbane-before-the-rain-smith-recovers-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/golf\/sebastian-garcia-leads-pga-in-brisbane-before-the-rain-smith-recovers-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Sebasti\u00e1n Garc\u00eda leads PGA in Brisbane before the rain, Smith recovers game"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Sebastian Garc\u00eda leads the Australian PGA Championship, interrupted by storms<\/h2>\n\nSpanish Sebasti\u00e1n Garc\u00eda was in a dominant position at the Australian PGA Championship, but the Brisbane weather forced the day to be suspended.\n\nGarc\u00eda, with an impressive performance, was seven under par after 15 holes, with a three-stroke lead over his pursuers, when thunderstorms forced a halt to the game.\n\nThe organizers asked the spectators to leave the field, anticipating the suspension of the game due to the heavy rain.\n\nGarc\u00eda arrived at the tournament after a victory in China and two top-five finishes in his last five participations.\n\nWith two par-5s to play, Garc\u00eda could have improved his score even more when play resumes.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1127%2Fr1581366_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Sebastian Garcia\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Photo by Chris Hyde\/Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n\n\nOther prominent golfers, such as Ryan Fox of New Zealand, Wenyi Ding of China, Tapio Pulkkanen of Finland, and Anthony Quayle, shared the lead at the club with four under par (67).\n\nAdam Scott and Min Woo Lee were one stroke behind, after completing rounds of 68.\n\nCameron Smith, three-time tournament winner, finished two under par, as did defending champion Elvis Smylie.\n\nMarc Leishman and Cam Davis, among others, were at two under par with several holes to play.\n\nFurthermore, there were two holes-in-one during the day.\n\nSmith revealed the hard work he has done to recover his short game.\n\nSmith, former world number 2 and major winner, woke up at 2:45 in the morning for his Thursday round and signed a card of two under par (69).\n\nSmith excelled at putting and chipping, but has been searching for that magic ever since.\n\nIn the ninth hole, he made a good putt from six to eight feet, which gave him confidence.\n\nLee, whose shot on the final hole hit the flagstick, had to settle for par.\n\nScott, two-time event winner, bogeyed the first and eighteenth holes.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastian Garc\u00eda leads the Australian PGA Championship, interrupted by storms Spanish Sebasti\u00e1n Garc\u00eda was in a dominant position at the Australian PGA Championship, but the Brisbane weather forced the day to be suspended. Garc\u00eda, with an impressive performance, was seven under par after 15 holes, with a three-stroke lead over his pursuers, when thunderstorms forced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[4089,10754,10755,10756],"class_list":{"0":"post-90354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-adam-scott","9":"tag-australian-pga","10":"tag-cameron-smith","11":"tag-sebastian-garcia"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90354","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=90354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}