{"id":7059,"date":"2012-01-15T20:44:48","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T18:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/01\/update-1-golf-grace-wins-first-european-title\/"},"modified":"2012-01-15T20:44:48","modified_gmt":"2012-01-15T18:44:48","slug":"update-1-golf-grace-wins-first-european-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-golf-grace-wins-first-european-title\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Golf-Grace wins first European title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Adds quotes)<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Ken Borland<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Jan 15 (Reuters) &#8211; South African Branden<br \/>\nGrace played with admirable composure to win his first European<br \/>\nTour title with victory in the Joburg Open by a stroke with a<br \/>\nlevel-par final round of 72 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Grace finished on 17-under-par, one stroke ahead of Briton<br \/>\nJamie Elson, who catapulted himself into second place with an<br \/>\noutstanding nine-under-par 63.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old began the final round with a three-<br \/>\nstroke lead over compatriot George Coetzee and Briton Richard<br \/>\nFinch. They were all playing in the final three-ball after<br \/>\nweather delays on the first three days of the 1.3 million euro<br \/>\n($1.65 million) event.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Finch crashed to a six-over-par 78, three-putting three<br \/>\ntimes on the front nine, to end nine shots off the pace.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Coetzee closed to within two shots of the lead with birdies<br \/>\non the fifth, sixth and eighth holes, but the burly South<br \/>\nAfrican faded on the back nine after a double-bogey on the par-<br \/>\nfour 13th when he hooked his approach shot into the water.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The world number 80 finished with a 75 to close on<br \/>\n11-under-par in a tie for 14th place.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Grace, a former member of the Ernie Els Foundation, put<br \/>\ntogether nine straight pars on the back nine to hold off Elson<br \/>\nand six golfers who finished in a tie for third on 14-under.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Adds quotes) By Ken Borland JOHANNESBURG Jan 15 (Reuters) &#8211; South African Branden Grace played with admirable composure to win his first European Tour title with victory in the Joburg Open by a stroke with a level-par final round of 72 on Sunday. Grace finished on 17-under-par, one stroke ahead of Briton Jamie Elson, who [&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":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-7059","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","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\/7059","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=7059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}