{"id":394928,"date":"2022-12-01T09:45:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T14:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=394928"},"modified":"2022-12-01T09:46:47","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T14:46:47","slug":"teenage-sensation-betschart-clinches-maiden-port-royal-championship","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/teenage-sensation-betschart-clinches-maiden-port-royal-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenage sensation Betschart clinches maiden Port Royal Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article-restofcontent\">\n<p class=\"article__body\">Teenage golf sensation Oliver Betschart became the youngest player to win the Port Royal Golf Club Championship, underlining his potential at the weekend.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Teenager Oliver Betschart clinches historic Port Royal Championship title <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dIVz1JhQEY\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/dIVz1JhQEY<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eMU9ZmZiKG\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/eMU9ZmZiKG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Royal Gazette (@TheRoyalGazette) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheRoyalGazette\/status\/1598001948858384395?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 30, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The fourteen-year-old won the 36-hole event by two shots over nearest rival Andrew Yates, with Sheldon Chychrun rounding off the podium finishers a further shot back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy first nine holes started good and then I bogeyed 16, 17 and 18, which left me 4 over through 9,\u201d Betschart told The Royal Gazette<em id=\"emphasis-6f62fe4fd2847ffbea860f91f11ce477\">.<\/em> \u201cI knew then that I had to play a bit more aggressive, but still smart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">\u201cI shot 1 under which left me with 74 for the day,\u201d he added. \u201cI didn\u2019t know where I stood but I thought that it would be close.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">\u201cWhen the final group came in people started to congratulate me, but I still was not sure until I heard it from Mr Lambert [Port Royal head professional Steven Lambert Jr], at which point I found out that I had shot the low score of the day and finished two shots in front of second place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">\u201cI also want to congratulate senior champion Ian Page and women\u2019s champion Kathryn Lloyd-Hines and also thank Port Royal Golf Club and the groundstaff.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teenage golf sensation Oliver Betschart became the youngest player to win the Port Royal Golf Club Championship, underlining his potential at the weekend. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":394929,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[],"news_category":[16713],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The 14-year-old made history at the weekend","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394928"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394928"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=394928"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=394928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}