{"id":5318,"date":"2013-09-21T08:48:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-21T08:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/schietekat-wins-platinum-classic-by-3\/"},"modified":"2013-09-21T08:48:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T08:48:00","slug":"schietekat-wins-platinum-classic-by-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/schietekat-wins-platinum-classic-by-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Schietekat wins Platinum Classic by 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North West Province, South Africa (Sports Network) &#8211; Neil Schietekat shot 4- under-par 68 on Saturday to win the Platinum Classic by three strokes.<\/p>\n<p>Schietekat finished 54 holes at Mooinooi Golf Club at 15-under 201 to wrap up his first win on the Sunshine Tour.<\/p>\n<p>Jaco Ahlers carded a final-round 69 to take second place at 12-under, James Kamte (70) grabbed third at 11-under and Vaughn Groenewald (71) finished in fourth at minus-10.<\/p>\n<p>Overnight leader Jacques Kruyswijk stumbled to a 75 and tied for fifth place with Michael Hollick (73) at 9-under.<\/p>\n<p>Schietekat began the day one stroke back, but promptly found himself in front, as Kruyswijk bogeyed six holes during his outward nine.<\/p>\n<p>Taking advantage, Schietekat eagled the par-4 third, then birdied three straight from the seventh to turn with a comfortable lead.<\/p>\n<p>He held steady during the home stretch, reeling off eight straight pars before an inconsequential bogey at the last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North West Province, South Africa (Sports Network) &#8211; Neil Schietekat shot 4- under-par 68 on Saturday to win the Platinum Classic by three strokes. Schietekat finished 54 holes at Mooinooi Golf Club at 15-under 201 to wrap up his first win on the Sunshine Tour. Jaco Ahlers carded a final-round 69 to take second place [&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-5318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5318","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=5318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}