{"id":5053,"date":"2013-09-15T13:04:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T13:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/brown-earns-2-shot-win-in-russia\/"},"modified":"2013-09-15T13:04:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-15T13:04:00","slug":"brown-earns-2-shot-win-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/brown-earns-2-shot-win-in-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Brown earns 2-shot win in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow, Russia (Sports Network) &#8211; Simon P. Brown closed with a 2-under 70 on Sunday and won the Russian Open Golf Championship (Senior) by two strokes.<\/p>\n<p>Brown finished his first European Senior Tour title at 12-under-par 204.<\/p>\n<p>The Englishman traded a birdie for a bogey from the second. He dropped in back-to-back birdie chances at six and seven to move to 12-under.<\/p>\n<p>After six pars in a row, Brown faltered to a double bogey to slide to minus-10. He got one stroke back with a birdie at 15, but gave that right back with a bogey on No. 16.<\/p>\n<p>Brown closed the tournament in style as he birdied the final two holes to claim the victory.<\/p>\n<p>Carl Mason and Mike Harwood both closed with a 4-under 68s to share second place at minus-10.<\/p>\n<p>Colin Montgomerie finished with a 1-under 71. He was joined in fourth place at 9-under 207 by Steen Tinning (72) and Miguel Angel Martin (72).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow, Russia (Sports Network) &#8211; Simon P. Brown closed with a 2-under 70 on Sunday and won the Russian Open Golf Championship (Senior) by two strokes. Brown finished his first European Senior Tour title at 12-under-par 204. The Englishman traded a birdie for a bogey from the second. He dropped in back-to-back birdie chances at [&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-5053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5053","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=5053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}