{"id":33078,"date":"2026-04-27T10:49:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T08:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=33078"},"modified":"2026-04-27T10:49:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T08:49:41","slug":"goosen-triumphs-at-pga-tour-champions-event","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/goosen-triumphs-at-pga-tour-champions-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Goosen triumphs at PGA Tour Champions event"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>South Africa&#8217;s\u00a0\u00a0(SA) two-time major champion, Retief Goosen, won the Professional Golfers&#8217; Association (PGA) Tour Champions Mitsubishi Electric Classic on Sunday at Sugarloaf, United States.<\/div>\n<p>His victory came 24 years after he captured the PGA Tour&#8217;s BellSouth Classic on the course.<\/p>\n<p>Goosen closed with a 14-point round under the modified Stableford scoring system to beat Stephen Ames of Canada by two points.<\/p>\n<p>It was the 57-year-old Golf Hall of Famer&#8217;s fifth victory in 150 starts on the senior tour.<\/p>\n<p>Goosen birdied the par-5 18th to finish with 39 points.<\/p>\n<p>He also won the PGA Tour&#8217;s 2005 International under the scoring system that was used for the first time in a senior event this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Players received eight points for an albatross, five for an eagle and two for a birdie.<\/p>\n<p>They lost a point for a bogey and three for a double bogey or worse.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14901,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-33078","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33078","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\/33078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33079,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33078\/revisions\/33079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=33078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}