{"id":79391,"date":"2016-07-25T12:19:37","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T16:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=79391"},"modified":"2016-08-02T05:05:36","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T09:05:36","slug":"jhonattan-vegas-rallies-win-rbc-canadian-open-one-stroke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/07\/25\/jhonattan-vegas-rallies-win-rbc-canadian-open-one-stroke\/","title":{"rendered":"Jhonattan Vegas rallies to win RBC Canadian Open by one stroke"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">RBC Canadian Champion. Thanks everyone for your great support. This is the best feeling in Golf. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RBCCanadianOpen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RBCCanadianOpen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aygvgQm9wG\">pic.twitter.com\/aygvgQm9wG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jhonattan Vegas (@JhonattanVegas) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JhonattanVegas\/status\/757381055309615105?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 25, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>OAKVILLE, Ont. \u2013 Jhonattan Vegas rallied to win the RBC Canadian Open for his second PGA Tour victory, birdieing the final three holes at Glen Abbey Golf Club for an 8-under 64 and one-stroke victory.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old Venezuelan began the day five strokes behind leader Brandt Snedeker, and four behind U.S. Open champion Dustin Johnson and Canadian amateur Jared du Toit.<\/p>\n<p>Du Toit finished tied for ninth at 9 under after a final round of 71. He was trying to become the first Canadian to win the event since Pat Fletcher in 1954.<\/p>\n<p>Du Toit struggled to start today\u2019s round with two early bogeys, but birdied 16 and 18 to finish two shots ahead of world No. 1 Jason Day.<\/p>\n<p>Vegas earned US$1,062,000 and a spot in the PGA Championship next week at Baltusrol in New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>He also received a two-year tour exemption and a spot in the Masters next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OAKVILLE, Ont. \u2013 Jhonattan Vegas rallied to win the RBC Canadian Open for his second PGA Tour victory, birdieing the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":79395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[11824,11825],"class_list":["post-79391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-jhonattan-vegas","tag-rbc-canadian-open","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}