{"id":20933,"date":"2015-11-09T08:38:32","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T08:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/la-reserva-teacher-wins-european-pga-tournament\/"},"modified":"2015-11-09T08:38:32","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T08:38:32","slug":"la-reserva-teacher-wins-european-pga-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/la-reserva-teacher-wins-european-pga-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"La Reserva teacher wins European PGA tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-4892\" src=\"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.holaincompany.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/victor-garca.png\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: left;margin-right:10px\" width=\"648\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/victor-garca.png 648w, https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/victor-garca-300x184.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/>V\u00edctor Garc\u00eda, professional and teacher at La Reserva de Sotogrande, signed a brilliant triumph in The Invitational 2015 Professional tournament of the European PGA, played in Quinta do Lago, in the Portuguese Algarve.<\/p>\n<p>With three magnificent rounds (68+69+69), the professional from La Reserva managed to beat Mark Mouland, David Griffiths and Hugo Santos by one stroke, all of whom finished the round with -9.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia won in a tight competition against such well-known names as Bradley Dredge (double winner in the European Tuour), Emanuele Canonica (winner of the Johnnie Walker Championshi), or Gary Wolstenhomlme.<\/p>\n<p>The professional from La Reserva de Sotogrande became the second Spaniard to win the title, following in the footsteps of his compatriot Gabriel Ca\u00f1izares in 2014.  <span style=\"font-size: 12.16px; line-height: 1.3em;\">Garcia admitted that having gone out on the course on the last day tied with two other rivals made him feel very nervous on the first tee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I calmed down when I birdied the third hole,&#8221; he said after receiving a check for 10,000 euros for his victory. &#8220;And when I really gained confidence was my chances was on the fifth hole, a par five where I made eagle.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel very happy, I think it is one of the most important days of my life, because I had never won a tournament as a professional. I want to say thank you to everyone, including Eligo, Quinta do Lago, the PGA of Europe and even my opponent today.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>V\u00edctor Garc\u00eda, professional and teacher at La Reserva de Sotogrande, signed a brilliant triumph in The Invitational 2015 Professional tournament of the European PGA, played in Quinta do Lago, in the Portuguese Algarve. With three magnificent rounds (68+69+69), the professional from La Reserva managed to beat Mark Mouland, David Griffiths and Hugo Santos by one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_focus_keyword":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}