{"id":403065,"date":"2023-12-06T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=403065"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Maui-tops-YOSGC-Championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Maui-tops-YOSGC-Championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Maui tops YOSGC Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wil \u201cPaki\u201d Maui won the annual Ye Olde Saipanne Golfe Clubbe Championship last Saturday, Dec. 2, in sunny and windy conditions at the Coral Ocean Resort golf course.<\/p>\n<p>The former bodybuilder, who also won in 2017, was in complete control of his powerful game, shooting a steady net 71 to pip runner-up Michael \u201c26\u201d Deary, who finished with a strong 73 despite coming to grief at hole 17, where valiantly he fought the back left greenside bunker, but the bunker won.<\/p>\n<p>But there was no grief for Maui. The new champion golfer of the year triumphantly accepted the Ye Olde Saipanne Golfe Clubbe\u2019s perpetual claret jug and champion\u2019s jacket from last year\u2019s champ Greg \u201cFossil\u201d Koebel, and the prize money from club treasurer Richard \u201cCaddy Dipper\u201d Miller at the awards dinner held at Wild Bill\u2019s Bar and Grill.<\/p>\n<p>Other participants in the championship were Timothy \u201cTex\u201d Brasuell; \u201cDouble\u201d Dan Harding; and Koebel, who finished in a three-way tie for third at 76; Curt \u201cKracker\u201d Petersen; Caddy Dipper; and Bill \u201cSupersandy\u201d Riggen. <strong><em>(PR)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/73d9fa5ea7a39c06b087ede732fd1be7.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Last year\u2019s champion Greg \u201cFossil\u201d Koebel slips the champions jacket onto 2023 Ye Olde Saipanne Golfe Clubbe champion Wil \u201cPaki\u201d Maui during the awards ceremony at Wild Bill\u2019s last Dec. 2.<\/p>\n<p>-CONTRIBUTED PHOTO<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/7b5c7917c612f0152e2569ba5e49639d.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Wil \u201cPaki\u201d Maui drinks from the claret jug.<\/p>\n<p>-CONTRIBUTED PHOTO<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/eb96208fb370436a59630e3763048ee0.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Wil \u201cPaki\u201d Maui happily receives the claret jug and cash prize.<\/p>\n<p>-CONTRIBUTED PHOTO<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/701640a216feed51ef4f485719796a4f.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Runner-up Michael \u201c26\u201d Deary hits his approach on hole No. 14 at the Coral Ocean Resort golf course.<\/p>\n<p>-CONTRIBUTED PHOTO<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wil \u201cPaki\u201d Maui won the annual Ye Olde Saipanne Golfe Clubbe Championship last Saturday, Dec&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403065","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}