{"id":13974,"date":"2014-02-09T08:25:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-09T08:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/paddison-wins-by-1-in-australia\/"},"modified":"2014-02-09T08:25:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T08:25:00","slug":"paddison-wins-by-1-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/paddison-wins-by-1-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Paddison wins by 1 in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne, Australia (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Gareth Paddison birdied his final hole Sunday to win the Victorian PGA Championship by a stroke.<\/p>\n<p>Paddison, who earned his fifth career win on the PGA Tour of Australasia, carded a 1-under 72 during his final round at finish the tournament at 16- under-par 272.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The wind was so strong out there all day. It was very tricky. To be able to hold on to my lead and win by one shot was fantastic,&#8221; said Paddison.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Hendry shot a 69 to end a shot off the pace at 15-under 273. while Jamie Arnold (71) took third place at minus-14.<\/p>\n<p>Kurt Barnes (71) and Andrew Martin (66) shared fourth at 12-under.<\/p>\n<p>Paddison maintained his overnight lead with three birdies and two bogeys over his first 16 holes before a bogey at the par-3 17th dropped him to 15-under and into a tie for the lead with Hendry.<\/p>\n<p>But Paddison stuck his second shot at the 18th to three feet and converted that birdie effort to claim his second Victorian PGA Championship title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne, Australia (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Gareth Paddison birdied his final hole Sunday to win the Victorian PGA Championship by a stroke. Paddison, who earned his fifth career win on the PGA Tour of Australasia, carded a 1-under 72 during his final round at finish the tournament at 16- under-par 272. &#8220;The wind was so strong out [&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-13974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13974","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=13974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}