{"id":9063,"date":"2012-03-19T03:19:47","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T01:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/update-1-golf-quesne-equals-course-record-to-win-andalucia-open\/"},"modified":"2012-03-19T03:19:47","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T01:19:47","slug":"update-1-golf-quesne-equals-course-record-to-win-andalucia-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-golf-quesne-equals-course-record-to-win-andalucia-open\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Golf-Quesne equals course record to win Andalucia Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Adds details)<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">MADRID, March 18<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Frenchman Julien Quesne matched<br \/>\nthe Aloha course record with an eight-under-par 64 to win his<br \/>\nmaiden title at the Andalucia Open on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old, ranked 322 in the world, stormed through to<br \/>\npass the overnight leader Eduardo De La Riva and finish with a<br \/>\ntotal of 271 for 17 under par.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Teenage Italian Matteo Manassero was two strokes behind him<br \/>\nin second after a round of 68, while Spaniard De La Riva carded<br \/>\na 70 to finish third, three strokes off the pace.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the best day of my life,&#8221; Quesne said on the European<br \/>\nTour&#8217;s website (www.europeantour.com).<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Quesne, who had never previously finished higher than 16th<br \/>\nin a European Tour event, birdied four of the last five holes,<br \/>\nand after a magnificent approach to the 18th showed great<br \/>\ncomposure to hole a five-foot putt.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I knew that if I holed the putt at the last I&#8217;d have a good<br \/>\nchance,&#8221; added Quesne, who graduated from last season&#8217;s<br \/>\nChallenge Tour.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m very happy. It&#8217;s very quick for me to win this year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Manassero and De La Riva were both 15 under at that stage,<br \/>\nbut neither could force a play-off over the closing holes.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Adds details) MADRID, March 18 (Reuters) &#8211; Frenchman Julien Quesne matched the Aloha course record with an eight-under-par 64 to win his maiden title at the Andalucia Open on Sunday. The 31-year-old, ranked 322 in the world, stormed through to pass the overnight leader Eduardo De La Riva and finish with a total of 271 [&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-9063","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\/9063","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=9063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}