{"id":14990,"date":"2014-02-23T12:48:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T12:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/griffin-win-victorian-playoff\/"},"modified":"2014-02-23T18:30:03","modified_gmt":"2014-02-23T18:30:03","slug":"griffin-win-victorian-playoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/griffin-win-victorian-playoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Griffin wins Victorian playoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria, Australia (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Matthew Griffin defeated Matthew Stieger on the third playoff hole Sunday to win the Oates Victorian Open Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Griffin closed with a 4-under 68 to get in at 7-under-par 281. Stieger posted a 3-under 69 to join him there. On the third extra hole, Griffin poured in a birdie effort for the win.<\/p>\n<p>Griffin birdied the second and fifth, both par-5s, before tripping to a bogey on the eighth at 13th Beach Golf Links. Around the turn, he birdied the par-5 11th and followed with birdies at 15 and 17 to get to minus-7.<\/p>\n<p>Stieger, who played with Griffin in the final threesome, got going with birdies on the first and fourth, but stumbled to a bogey on the sixth. He atoned for that error with a birdie on No. 9. Stieger followed a birdie on 13 with a double-bogey on the 14th. He bounced back with birdies at 16 and 18 to force the playoff.<\/p>\n<p>Third-round leader Brett Drewitt managed a 1-under 71 in the final round to end one back at minus-6. Andrew Kelly (67) and Terry Pilkadaris (71) shared fourth at 4-under 284.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria, Australia (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Matthew Griffin defeated Matthew Stieger on the third playoff hole Sunday to win the Oates Victorian Open Championship. Griffin closed with a 4-under 68 to get in at 7-under-par 281. Stieger posted a 3-under 69 to join him there. On the third extra hole, Griffin poured in a birdie effort for [&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-14990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14990","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=14990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14992,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14990\/revisions\/14992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}