{"id":97,"date":"2021-01-11T14:26:01","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T16:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-world.media\/?p=97"},"modified":"2021-01-11T14:26:01","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T16:26:01","slug":"tournament-of-champions-harris-english-wins-play-off-against-joaquin-niemann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newslife.info\/?p=97","title":{"rendered":"Tournament of Champions: Harris English wins play-off against Joaquin Niemann"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>American Harris English claimed his first PGA Tour victory in seven years by winning the Tournament of Champions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He holed a six-foot birdie putt to edge out Joaquin Niemann at Kapalua, Hawaii, after both finished on 25 under.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defending champion Justin Thomas came third on 24 under and said Saturday&#8217;s incident in which he was heard using a homophobic slur had played on his mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I made a terrible judgment call,&#8221; Thomas told Golf Channel. &#8220;It definitely was a distraction.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>English, 31, carded a four-under 69 in the final round at the Plantation Course with Chilean Niemann, 22, shooting 64.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>World number three Thomas, who shot 68 on Sunday, was picked up by a television microphone using the slur on Saturday after missing a putt on the fourth hole.\u00a0He later apologised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Harris English claimed his first PGA Tour victory in seven years by winning the Tournament of Champions. He holed a six-foot birdie putt to edge out Joaquin Niemann at Kapalua, Hawaii, after both finished on 25 under. Defending champion Justin Thomas came third on 24 under and said Saturday&#8217;s incident in which he was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslife.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslife.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslife.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslife.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslife.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newslife.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99,"href":"https:\/\/newslife.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/99"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslife.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslife.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslife.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslife.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}