{"id":2046,"date":"2015-03-07T12:40:29","date_gmt":"2015-03-07T01:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.riversdalegolf.com.au\/cms\/?p=2046"},"modified":"2026-04-10T14:34:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T04:34:02","slug":"commonwealths-schoolboy-golf-prodigy-leads-riversdale-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.riversdalegolf.com.au\/cms\/2015\/03\/commonwealths-schoolboy-golf-prodigy-leads-riversdale-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"COMMONWEALTH\u2019S SCHOOLBOY GOLF PRODIGY LEADS RIVERSDALE CUP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><\/span><strong>Teeing off in the toughest of the blustery early morning conditions, Commonwealth Golf Club\u2019s 15-year-old Cameron John finessed his way to the first round lead of the men\u2019s Riversdale Cup with a three-under 69.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>He leads a group of four players, including clubmate Lucas Herbert, Grange\u2019s Jack Williams and Matthew Lisk and Travis Smyth from NSW, by a shot.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>John heads a 127-strong field comprising last year\u2019s men\u2019s Cup winner, Victoria Golf Club\u2019s 16-year-old Ryan Ruffels, (three-over), with current Australian Amateur champion, Cameron Davis, from Sydney\u2019s Monash Country Club a further shot back.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Given the conditions, John, who is a student at Rowville Secondary College, showed remarkable poise and confidence around the challenging Riversdale layout.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>At the completion of his round, John said that, despite the conditions, he felt he could have done better.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>After the first round, Singapore\u2019s Jen Goh, highly fancied Julienne Soo, from Woodlands, and the current U.S. junior girls\u2019 champion, Princess Mary Superal,with one-over 74s, head the women\u2019s Riversdale Cup field of 41 players.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>15-year-old Cameron John leads with a three-under 69 <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.riversdalegolf.com.au\/cms\/2015\/03\/commonwealths-schoolboy-golf-prodigy-leads-riversdale-cup\/\" class=\"read-more-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2028-04-25 03:53:27","action":"category","newStatus":"draft","terms":[54],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riversdalegolf.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riversdalegolf.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riversdalegolf.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riversdalegolf.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riversdalegolf.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.riversdalegolf.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2047,"href":"https:\/\/www.riversdalegolf.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046\/revisions\/2047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riversdalegolf.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riversdalegolf.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riversdalegolf.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}