{"id":19963,"date":"2014-06-24T15:13:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T15:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/stricker-van-pelt-defend-cvs-charity-classic-title\/"},"modified":"2014-06-24T20:10:06","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T20:10:06","slug":"stricker-van-pelt-defend-cvs-charity-classic-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/stricker-van-pelt-defend-cvs-charity-classic-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Stricker, Van Pelt defend CVS Charity Classic title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barrington, RI (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Steve Stricker and Bo Van Pelt teamed to fire an 11-under 60 on Tuesday to successfully defend their title at the CVS Caremark Charity Classic.<\/p>\n<p>The duo finished the 36-hole tournament at Rhode Island Country Club at 20- under-par 122.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Jacobsen and Jimmy Walker, who shared the lead with Stricker and Van Pelt after the opening round, carded a 10-under 61 on Tuesday to finish alone in second place at 19-under 123.<\/p>\n<p>Suzann Pettersen and Jonas Blixt also shot 61 in the final round to end in a tie for third with Russell Henley and Harris English at 15-under. Henley and English combined to card an 8-under 63.<\/p>\n<p>The first-round co-leaders traded birdies over the first two holes to remain tied before Van Pelt and Stricker stayed hot with their third straight gain to grab the outright lead.<\/p>\n<p>After again trading birdies at the fourth, Van Pelt and Stricker pulled two strokes ahead of Jacobsen and Walker with another birdie at the sixth.<\/p>\n<p>Jacobsen and Walker battled back with birdies at the eighth, ninth, 11th and 13th to meet Van Pelt and Stricker at 8-under on the day, but Van Pelt and Stricker answered with a birdie at the 14th to pull back ahead.<\/p>\n<p>The teams would go on to trade birdies at the 15th and 17th before both parred the last to hand Van Pelt and Stricker the win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barrington, RI (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Steve Stricker and Bo Van Pelt teamed to fire an 11-under 60 on Tuesday to successfully defend their title at the CVS Caremark Charity Classic. The duo finished the 36-hole tournament at Rhode Island Country Club at 20- under-par 122. Peter Jacobsen and Jimmy Walker, who shared the lead with Stricker [&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-19963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19963","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=19963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19965,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19963\/revisions\/19965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}