{"id":334843,"date":"2020-12-10T06:02:04","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T20:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=334843"},"modified":"2020-12-10T06:02:04","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T20:02:04","slug":"dunlop-earns-second-golfer-of-the-year-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/dunlop-earns-second-golfer-of-the-year-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Dunlop earns second Golfer of the Year title"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_334844\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-334844\" style=\"width: 432px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/golfpix.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-334844\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Don Dunlop, center, receives the Champion\u2019s Jugge from 2019 co-champs Juj Lizama, right, and Dan Harding. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For the first time in its long and storied history, the Ye Olde Saipanne Golfe Clubbe has a two-time champion.<br \/>\nDon \u201cChamp\u201d Dunlop bested eight other YOSGC members in last Saturday\u2019s tournament on the west course of the Laolay Bay Golf &amp; Resort to become the club\u2019s 2020 Golfer of the Year, a title he also took during the inaugural championship in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Dunlop\u2019s gross score of 90 translated to a net 71, giving him a two-stroke victory over 2016 champion Michael Deary (gross 94\/net 73) and rookie Glenn Bell (gross 92\/net 73). Alone in fourth place was Juan Lizama, who finished three strokes off the lead with a gross score of 88 for a net 74. Rounding out the field were Richard Miller, Grant Balmer, Timothy Brasuell, and Wilhelm Maui.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about his historic victory, Dunlop said \u201cYou know, it seems like at least five competitors played better than me. We\u2019re all champions the way I see it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the competition, the club held its post-tournament banquet with Dunlop presented with the YOSGC Champion\u2019s Jugge and Ugly Yellow Jacket by 2019 co-champions Lizama and Dan Harding.<strong> (PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in its long and storied history, the Ye Olde Saipanne Golfe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":334845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}