{"id":357523,"date":"2021-12-13T06:01:13","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T20:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=357523"},"modified":"2021-12-13T06:01:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T20:01:13","slug":"supersandy-riggen-is-golfer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/supersandy-riggen-is-golfer-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Supersandy\u2019 Riggen is Golfer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_357526\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-357526\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Ye-pix-1.jpg\" alt=\"Bill \u201cSupersandy\u201d Riggen receives his trophy and prize money\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-357526\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-357526\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill \u201cSupersandy\u201d Riggen receives his trophy and prize money from Ye Olde Saipanne Golfe Clubbe commissioner Michael \u201c26\u201d Deary. (CONTRIBUTED PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bill \u201cSupersandy\u201d Riggen shot a net 68 at Kingfisher Golf Links last Dec. 4 to become the Ye Olde Saipanne Golfe Clubbe\u2019s 2021 Champion Golfer of the Year. <\/p>\n<p>Riggen\u2019s 68 bested the second place finishers Timothy \u201cTex\u201d Brasuell and Greg \u201cFossil\u201d Koebel by a staggering nine strokes, leaving absolutely no doubt that the best man won this year\u2019s tournament. <\/p>\n<p>The outcome was in doubt only momentarily when, after finishing the front nine five shots clear of the field, Riggen double bogeyed both holes No. 10 and 11. However, any hope that his competitors could take in this brief lapse of form was slowly, steadily, and painfully quashed as Riggen completed the final seven holes in 1-over par. The championship effectively ended at the 17th, where three of his closest competitors came to grief with 4-over par 8s while Riggen calmly produced a par.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_357528\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-357528\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Ye-pix-2.jpg\" alt=\"Ye Olde Saipanne Golfe Clubbe\u2019s Champion\u2019s Jacket\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-357528\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-357528\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ye Olde Saipanne Golfe Clubbe\u2019s Champion\u2019s Jacket is wedged onto Champion Golfer of the Year Bill \u201cSupersandy\u201d Riggen by 2020 winner Don \u201cChampChamp\u201d Dunlop. (CONTRIBUTED PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After the championship round, the Ye Olde Saipanne Golfe Clubbe members repaired to Wild Bill\u2019s Bar and Grille for the presentation of the perpetual trophy, winner\u2019s jacket, and prize money to their new Champion Golfer of the Year. The consensus was that Riggen\u2019s spectacular round was attributable largely to the keeping of his prodigious drives on the fairway and out of the jungle, where he has spent much of his golfing career. Also, as noted by the Clubbe\u2019s sage commissioner Michael \u201c26\u201d Deary, only once during the championship did Riggen produce one of the wretched chunks on an approach shot that so often plagues his game and horrifies his playing partners.<\/p>\n<p>Rounding out the Top 5 in this year\u2019s tournament were Deary, who shot a 78 and last year\u2019s champion, Don \u201cChampChamp\u201d Dunlop, with a 79. <em>(PR)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill \u201cSupersandy\u201d Riggen shot a net 68 at Kingfisher Golf Links last Dec. 4 to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":357530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357523","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\/357523","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=357523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}