{"id":6252,"date":"2013-10-13T08:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-13T08:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/geary-races-to-win-in-australia\/"},"modified":"2013-10-13T08:36:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-13T08:36:00","slug":"geary-races-to-win-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/geary-races-to-win-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Geary races to win in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perth, Australia (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Josh Geary fired a 7-under 65 on Sunday to claim a five-stroke victory at the WA Open Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Geary earned his first win on the PGA Tour of Australasia at 15-under-par 273.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has been six or seven years now that I have been trying for a win,&#8221; said Geary. &#8220;The highest hurdle is the first one. Now I have broken through I should be good for the near future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Geary entered the final round a stroke behind overnight leader Kristopher Mueck, but quickly overtook the top spot with four straight birdies from the second while Mueck tripped to bogeys at the second and third.<\/p>\n<p>Geary cruised from there, picking up shots at the ninth, 13th, 14th and 17th around a bogey at the 12th to earn the big win.<\/p>\n<p>Mueck birdied three of his last five holes to close out a 1-under 71 and finish in second place at 10-under-278.<\/p>\n<p>Nathan Holman (68) took third at 9-under, while Kim Felton (68), Steven Jones (69) and Peter O&#8217;Malley (68) shared fourth at minus-8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perth, Australia (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Josh Geary fired a 7-under 65 on Sunday to claim a five-stroke victory at the WA Open Championship. Geary earned his first win on the PGA Tour of Australasia at 15-under-par 273. &#8220;It has been six or seven years now that I have been trying for a win,&#8221; said Geary. &#8220;The [&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-6252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252","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=6252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}