{"id":26189,"date":"2014-11-23T04:35:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T04:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/amateur-cheng-wins-by-3-in-china\/"},"modified":"2014-11-23T10:40:09","modified_gmt":"2014-11-23T10:40:09","slug":"amateur-cheng-wins-by-3-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/amateur-cheng-wins-by-3-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Amateur Cheng wins by 3 in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Xiamen, China (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Amateur Ssu-Chia Cheng carded her second straight 4-under 68 on Sunday and she won the Xiamen Open by three strokes.<\/p>\n<p>Cheng ended at 10-under-par 206 at Orient (Xiamen) Golf &amp; Country Club. This was her first victory on the Ladies European Tour.<\/p>\n<p>The teenager from Taiwan flew out of the gate on Sunday with three birdies in the first four holes to jump to minus-9. Cheng tripped to a bogey on the par-4 sixth.<\/p>\n<p>Cheng atoned for that mistake with a birdie on the ninth. She made it two in a row with another birdie on No. 10. Cheng closed out the victory with eight straight pars.<\/p>\n<p>Marion Ricordeau carded a 3-under 69 in the final round to grab second place at minus-7. American Beth Allen and Alexandra Vilatte both posted 2-under 70s on Sunday and they shared third at 6-under-par 210.<\/p>\n<p>Last week&#8217;s winner Xi Yu Lin (70), Liz Young (71) and Joanna Klatten (71) tied for fifth place at minus-5.<\/p>\n<p>Chloe Leurquin and Connie Chen shared the lead entering the final round with Cheng, but they stumbled to 4-over 76s to slide into a share of 11th at minus-2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xiamen, China (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Amateur Ssu-Chia Cheng carded her second straight 4-under 68 on Sunday and she won the Xiamen Open by three strokes. Cheng ended at 10-under-par 206 at Orient (Xiamen) Golf &amp; Country Club. This was her first victory on the Ladies European Tour. The teenager from Taiwan flew out of the gate [&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-26189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lpga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26189","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=26189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26190,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26189\/revisions\/26190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}