{"id":11002,"date":"2013-12-06T13:21:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T13:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/nelson-mandela-championship-start-moved-up-one-day\/"},"modified":"2013-12-06T13:21:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T13:21:00","slug":"nelson-mandela-championship-start-moved-up-one-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/nelson-mandela-championship-start-moved-up-one-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Nelson Mandela Championship start moved up one day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Durban, South Africa (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The European Tour announced Friday that next week&#8217;s Nelson Mandela Championship will still be held, but it will start a day earlier than originally scheduled.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes one day after the passing of former South African president and anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela. With the state funeral for Mandela being held Sunday, Dec. 15, the tournament will start Wednesday and conclude Saturday, allowing four rounds to be completed a day prior to the service.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament, now in its second year, will continue to honor Mandela&#8217;s charity contributions through the Nelson Mandela Children&#8217;s Fund.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Jamieson defeated Steve Webster in a playoff to win the title last year. Jamieson is scheduled to defend his title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Durban, South Africa (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The European Tour announced Friday that next week&#8217;s Nelson Mandela Championship will still be held, but it will start a day earlier than originally scheduled. The announcement comes one day after the passing of former South African president and anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela. With the state funeral for Mandela being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}