{"id":612605,"date":"2025-12-04T23:22:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T23:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/612605\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T23:22:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T23:22:16","slug":"mckibbin-makes-solid-start-at-nedbank-golf-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/612605\/","title":{"rendered":"McKibbin makes solid start at Nedbank Golf Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom McKibbin is five shots off the lead after a bogey-free opening round at the Nedbank Golf Challenge.<\/p>\n<p>The Holywood GC golfer carded a four-under 68 to sit tied for fifth after the first day around the Gary Player Country Club course in Sun City, South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>McKibbin birdied the third in an otherwise quiet front nine but found form after another gain on the 10th and going onto hole consecutive birdies on 14 and 15.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/results\/golf\/european-tour-1\/28889\/nedbank-golf-challenge-908754\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LEADERBOARD<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>However, it&#8217;s Kristoffer Reitan who leads the way after the Norwegian hit three birdies on the last five holes to open a three-shot lead.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old holed a total of 10 birdies and could afford a bogey five on the 17th as he blitzed around the course for a nine-under-par 63.<\/p>\n<p>England\u2019s Marcus Armitage, Frenchman Adrien Saddier and Jesper Svensson of Sweden were joint-second after carding six-under-par 66s with six players a further stroke back on 67.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament is part of the DP World Tour\u2019s new season schedule and dubbed &#8216;Africa\u2019s major\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><b>Additional reporting: Reuters<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom McKibbin is five shots off the lead after a bogey-free opening round at the Nedbank Golf Challenge.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4106],"tags":[2826,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-612605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115663873449447200","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}