{"id":428465,"date":"2023-03-06T03:29:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T08:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=428465"},"modified":"2023-03-06T04:06:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T09:06:16","slug":"kurt-kitayama-edges-out-rory-mcllroy-for-maiden-pga-tour-win","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/kurt-kitayama-edges-out-rory-mcllroy-for-maiden-pga-tour-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurt Kitayama edges out Rory Mcllroy for maiden PGA Tour win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bookies favorite Rory Mcllroy missed out on victory against Kurt Kitayama, who kept his composure and secured the Arnold Palmer Invitational for his first win in the PGA Tour.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What a way to win at Arnie&#39;s Place! \ud83d\udc4f<\/p>\n<p>Congrats on your first PGA TOUR victory <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kurt_Kitayama?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Kurt_Kitayama<\/a> \ud83c\udfc6 \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/twBFNqyUlt\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/twBFNqyUlt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ryder Cup USA (@RyderCupUSA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RyderCupUSA\/status\/1632522563112009728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<span data-reactid=\".10vdaiq669i.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5.0\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve been dreaming of this for a while,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been close and to finally get it done feels amazing.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".10vdaiq669i.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-6\"><span data-reactid=\".10vdaiq669i.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-6.0\">Kitayama produced a level-par 72 on the final day which included four birdies, a bogey and a triple bogey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".10vdaiq669i.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-7\"><span data-reactid=\".10vdaiq669i.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-7.0\">McIlroy had five bogeys in his final round, which also contained seven birdies as he shot two under on the last day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".10vdaiq669i.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-7\">The Northern Irishman didn&#8217;t hide his frustration as he finished second tied with American Harris English.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".10vdaiq669i.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-9\"><span data-reactid=\".10vdaiq669i.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-9.0\">&#8220;It&#8217;s disappointing,&#8221; said the dejected McIlroy. &#8220;I felt like I gave myself a great chance after a birdie on the 13th and then to play the final five holes in one over par, with this jam-packed leaderboard, isn&#8217;t really going to get it done. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".10vdaiq669i.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-10\"><span data-reactid=\".10vdaiq669i.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-10.0\">&#8220;It was a battle all day. I felt like I hung in there really well and just came up one short in the end.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".10vdaiq669i.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-10\"><span data-reactid=\".10vdaiq669i.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-12.0\">Defending champion Scottie Scheffler (73) was also on seven under, along with fellow countryman Patrick Cantlay (68) and England&#8217;s Tyrrell Hatton (72). <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bookies favorite Rory Mcllroy missed out on victory against Kurt Kitayama, who kept his composure and secured the Arnold Palmer Invitational for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":428470,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16988,17989,17434],"news_category":[16713],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The American golfer overcome the odds to defeat Mcllroy by one shot","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\/428465"}],"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=428465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/428465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428465"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=428465"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=428465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}