{"id":25567,"date":"2014-11-09T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/pace-tops-clyburn-in-playoff-to-win-in-south-africa-2\/"},"modified":"2014-11-09T13:45:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T13:45:00","slug":"pace-tops-clyburn-in-playoff-to-win-in-south-africa-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/pace-tops-clyburn-in-playoff-to-win-in-south-africa-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pace tops Clyburn in playoff to win in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hibiscus Coast, South Africa (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Lee-Anne Pace defeated Holly Clyburn in a playoff on Sunday to earn a victory at the South African Women&#8217;s Open.<\/p>\n<p>Pace, who shot a final-round, 5-under 67, finished regulation play tied with Clyburn (70) at 5-under-par 211. The win is Pace&#8217;s third on the Ladies European Tour and her first since winning twice last year.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning the day at even par for the week, Pace needed to make a serious move up the leaderboard if she wanted to have a chance at San Lameer Country Club. Pace made birdie at the first, but a bogey on No. 3 dropped her back to even. She traded a birdie on No. 5 with another bogey on No. 7 as well.<\/p>\n<p>A birdie on nine got Pace going. After three straight pars from No. 10, Pace made an eagle on the par-5 13th, getting her to minus-3. She finished off strong with two more birdies on 16 and 18 to take the clubhouse lead at 5- under.<\/p>\n<p>Clyburn had a bogey-free round on Sunday, but she made just two birdies on one and 13 to go along with 16 pars.<\/p>\n<p>Gwladys Nocera finished alone in third place at 3-under 213 after a final- round 70. Florentyna Parker (68), Georgina Simpson (69), Valentine Derrey (71) and Ann-Kathrin Lindner (73) ended tied for fourth at 2-under 214.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hibiscus Coast, South Africa (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Lee-Anne Pace defeated Holly Clyburn in a playoff on Sunday to earn a victory at the South African Women&#8217;s Open. Pace, who shot a final-round, 5-under 67, finished regulation play tied with Clyburn (70) at 5-under-par 211. The win is Pace&#8217;s third on the Ladies European Tour and her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lpga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25567","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=25567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}