{"id":19353,"date":"2014-06-01T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T08:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/jang-wins-by-3-in-japan-qualifies-for-open\/"},"modified":"2014-06-01T08:45:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T08:45:00","slug":"jang-wins-by-3-in-japan-qualifies-for-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/jang-wins-by-3-in-japan-qualifies-for-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Jang wins by 3 in Japan; qualifies for Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okayama, Japan (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Dong-Kyu Jang closed with a 3-under 69 on Sunday and won the Mizuno Open by three strokes.<\/p>\n<p>Jang finished at 15-under-par 273. With his first Japan Tour title, Jang qualified for this year&#8217;s British Open.<\/p>\n<p>Juvic Pagunsan shot 70 and took second at minus-12, while Hyung-Tae Kim (66) and Tomohiro Kondo (67) shared third at 11-under 277. All three of these players also qualified for the season&#8217;s third major championship.<\/p>\n<p>Jang converted back-to-back birdies at the second and third at JFE Setonaikai Golf Club. After three pars in a row, Jang birdied the seventh to move to minus-15.<\/p>\n<p>Around the turn, he stumbled to bogeys at the 11th and 13th. Jang pulled away late as he birdied the last two holes to push his winning margin to three.<\/p>\n<p>In-Hoi Hur closed with a 70 to grab fifth at 8-under 280. Yui Ueda (70), Michael Hendry (71) and Hirohi Iwata (73) shared sixth at minus-7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okayama, Japan (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Dong-Kyu Jang closed with a 3-under 69 on Sunday and won the Mizuno Open by three strokes. Jang finished at 15-under-par 273. With his first Japan Tour title, Jang qualified for this year&#8217;s British Open. Juvic Pagunsan shot 70 and took second at minus-12, while Hyung-Tae Kim (66) and Tomohiro Kondo [&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-19353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19353","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=19353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}