{"id":381098,"date":"2022-12-06T06:01:08","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T20:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=381098"},"modified":"2022-12-06T06:01:08","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T20:01:08","slug":"fossil-wins-2022-golf-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/fossil-wins-2022-golf-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Fossil\u2019 wins 2022 golf championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_381074\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-381074\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Golf-pixwb.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Golf-pixwb.jpg\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-381074\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Greg \u201cFossil\u201d Koebel shows off the claret jug, his cash prize, and yellow jacket after being named Ye Olde Saipanne Golfe Clubbe\u2019s 2022 Champion Golfer of the Year last Saturday during the awards ceremony at Wild Bill\u2019s. (CONTRIBUETD PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Greg \u201cFossil\u201d Koebel shot a 75 at the Laolao Bay Golf &amp; Resort west golf course in windy conditions on Saturday to become the Ye Olde Saipanne Golfe Clubbe\u2019s 2022 Champion Golfer of the Year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By employing his trusty decades-old sasquatche driver to keep his balls in the fairway and sinking a plethora of short- to mid-range putts, Koebel was able to hold off Juan \u201cJuj\u201d Lizama, who tragically missed a few tap-ins to finish one stroke back at 76.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tim \u201cTex\u201d Brasuell started slowly, ballooning to a 42 on the front nine, but despite his lovely backside score of 36, it was too little, too late for The Man From Dinttin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rounding out the Top 5 were last year\u2019s champion Bill \u201cSupersandy\u201d Riggen, who shot 80, and 2019 champion \u201cDouble\u201d Dan Harding with an 81.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After the round, an awards ceremony was held at Wild Bill\u2019s Bar and Grill where Koebel was presented with the perpetual claret jug and fitted with the champion\u2019s jacket by Riggen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Following the presentation, the club\u2019s members enjoyed copious refreshments as provided by the Wild Bill\u2019s staff and regaled each other with fascinating stories revolving mostly around the theme of how they would have won the championship if they hadn\u2019t \u201chad such horribly bad luck on that one hole.\u201d<em> <strong>(PR)<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg \u201cFossil\u201d Koebel shot a 75 at the Laolao Bay Golf &amp; Resort west golf&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":381073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381098","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\/381098","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=381098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}