{"id":4383,"date":"2013-08-30T21:56:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T21:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/gustafson-stepping-away-from-lpga\/"},"modified":"2013-08-30T21:56:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T21:56:00","slug":"gustafson-stepping-away-from-lpga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/gustafson-stepping-away-from-lpga\/","title":{"rendered":"Gustafson stepping away from LPGA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Portland, OR (Sports Network) &#8211; Sophie Gustafson, a five-time winner on the LPGA Tour, announced after Friday&#8217;s second round of the Safeway Classic that she is stepping away from the LPGA Tour.<\/p>\n<p>Gustafson said on her twitter account, &#8220;It&#8217;s with mixed emotions that I&#8217;m now choosing to step away from the LPGA. Thanks for all your kindness over the years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old Swede, who rarely spoke in interviews due to a severe stuttering problem, had 14 wins on the Ladies European Tour and 10 other worldwide victories.<\/p>\n<p>She was a three-time player of the year on the LET and a four-time Order of Merit winner.<\/p>\n<p>Gustafson won the 2000 Women&#8217;s British Open, the year before it became a major championship.<\/p>\n<p>She also made eight appearances on the European Solheim Cup team and put together a 13-12-6 record, including a 7-1-4 mark in foursomes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portland, OR (Sports Network) &#8211; Sophie Gustafson, a five-time winner on the LPGA Tour, announced after Friday&#8217;s second round of the Safeway Classic that she is stepping away from the LPGA Tour. Gustafson said on her twitter account, &#8220;It&#8217;s with mixed emotions that I&#8217;m now choosing to step away from the LPGA. Thanks for all [&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-4383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lpga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4383","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=4383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}