{"id":22138,"date":"2014-08-17T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-17T07:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/jeffress-wins-by-4-in-fiji\/"},"modified":"2014-08-17T07:45:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-17T07:45:00","slug":"jeffress-wins-by-4-in-fiji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/jeffress-wins-by-4-in-fiji\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffress wins by 4 in Fiji"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fiji (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Steven Jeffress closed with a 2-under 70 on Sunday to win the inaugural Fiji International.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffress, who hit the first tee shot of the tournament on Thursday, ended at 10-under-par 278 at Natadola Bay Championship Golf Course.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian trailed countryman Jake Higginbottom by two strokes at the turn. However, Higginbottom stumbled to bogeys at 10 and 13 to fall into a share of the lead.<\/p>\n<p>The 15th proved to be the turning point as Jeffress converted a birdie chance and Higginbottom tripped to a bogey to fall two behind.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffress went on to win by four. Higginbottom stumbled to a 2-over 74 and ended alone in second at minus-6. Terry Pilkadaris (71) and Andrew Dodt (76) shared third at 2-under 286.<\/p>\n<p>Course designer and Fiji native Vijay Singh posted a 1-over 73 in the final round and finished 10th place at 2-over 290.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fiji (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Steven Jeffress closed with a 2-under 70 on Sunday to win the inaugural Fiji International. Jeffress, who hit the first tee shot of the tournament on Thursday, ended at 10-under-par 278 at Natadola Bay Championship Golf Course. The Australian trailed countryman Jake Higginbottom by two strokes at the turn. However, Higginbottom stumbled [&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-22138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22138","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=22138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}