{"id":18549,"date":"2013-03-04T02:30:49","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T00:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/van-der-walt-emerges-from-crowded-tshwane-leaderboard\/"},"modified":"2013-03-04T02:30:49","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T00:30:49","slug":"van-der-walt-emerges-from-crowded-tshwane-leaderboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/van-der-walt-emerges-from-crowded-tshwane-leaderboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Van der Walt emerges from crowded Tshwane leaderboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/van-der-walt-emerges-from-crowded-tshwane-leaderboard\/dawie-van-der-walt-lr\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2313\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2313\" alt=\"Dawie van der Walt claimed his maiden win on the European Tour in the 2013 Tshwane Open on Sunday. Photo: Mike Tippett\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/05045_Dawie-van-der-Walt-LR.jpg\" width=\"291\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dawie van der Walt claimed his maiden win on the European Tour in the 2013 Tshwane Open on Sunday. Photo: Mike Tippett<\/p>\n<p>PRETORIA, South Africa \u2013 Dawie van der Walt won his first European Tour title when he emerged from a crowded leaderboard at the Tshwane Open at The Els Club, Copperleaf, on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Van Der Walt finished a fairytale week with a 67 for 21 under par 267, two clear of Darren Fichardt.<\/p>\n<p>Fichardt closed with a 69 in what has been a dream run for him, with a win, seventh and second-place finish in the last three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Louis de Jager claimed his best finish in a European Tour event when he placed third on 18 under par with a 69.<\/p>\n<p>But Van Der Walt proved once again the value of a young South African professional being able to play in one of six European Tour events in his home country, and its ability to launch a career.<\/p>\n<p>Of more value than the R2.7 million in prize money he earned is a two-year exemption on the European Tour. And perhaps, most importantly, the belief that comes with it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, I\u2019m 30 years old now, I\u2019ve been a professional for six years without a win, and you start to doubt,\u201d said Van Der Walt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou see all your friends winning and you wonder if it will ever be your turn. You start to wonder whether you have it in you. Today I know I do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dawie van der Walt claimed his maiden win on the European Tour in the 2013 Tshwane Open on Sunday. Photo: Mike Tippett PRETORIA, South Africa \u2013 Dawie van der Walt won his first European Tour title when he emerged from a crowded leaderboard at the Tshwane Open at The Els Club, Copperleaf, on Sunday. Van [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-18549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}