{"id":23805,"date":"2026-02-16T07:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T05:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/americans-morikawa-wins-pebble-beach-pro-am\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:34:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:34:33","slug":"americans-morikawa-wins-pebble-beach-pro-am","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/americans-morikawa-wins-pebble-beach-pro-am\/","title":{"rendered":"American&#8217;s Morikawa wins Pebble Beach Pro-Am"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">A birdie at the last hole saw American, Collin Morikawa, win the Pebble Beach Pro-Am in California.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span class=\"x_elementtoproof\">This was his first Professional Golfers&#8217; Association Tour win in more than two years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"x_elementtoproof\">Morikawa was two ahead with two holes to play, when Australia&#8217;s Min Woo Lee birdied the 18th.<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"x_elementtoproof\">The American then bogeyed the penultimate hole himself, and the pair were locked at 21 under par.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">But Morikawa avoided the play-off, with a birdie on the final hole to clinch the title and end his trophy drought.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">Austrian Sepp Straka joined Lee on 21 under par for the tournament and a shared the second place.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">Another American, world number one, Scottie Scheffler and England&#8217;s Tommy Fleetwood finished joint fourth on 20 under.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span class=\"x_elementtoproof\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":23806,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-23805","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"Collin Morikawa, win the Pebble Beach Pro-Am in California.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26664,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23805\/revisions\/26664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=23805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}