{"id":21543,"date":"2017-03-08T09:33:28","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T09:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/gripping-climax-to-the-gecko-tour-at-finca-cortesin\/"},"modified":"2017-03-08T09:33:28","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T09:33:28","slug":"gripping-climax-to-the-gecko-tour-at-finca-cortesin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/gripping-climax-to-the-gecko-tour-at-finca-cortesin\/","title":{"rendered":"Gripping Climax to The Gecko Tour at Finca Cortes\u00edn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-6756\" src=\"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.holaincompany.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/images_Actualidad2016_Geckofinal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/images_Actualidad2016_Geckofinal.jpg 840w, https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/images_Actualidad2016_Geckofinal-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/images_Actualidad2016_Geckofinal-768x494.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Matthew Baldwin has been there before. In 2011 he won the Challenge Tour de Espa\u00f1a in the Canary Islands, and in subsequent seasons competed regularly on the European Tour. <\/p>\n<p>On this occasion the 31-year-old Englishman was competing in the final event of the 2016-17 Gecko Tour, using Europe\u2019s premier winter circuit to prepare for the first tournament of this year\u2019s European Challenge Tour, in Kenya later this month.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, after a tough duel against compatriot Sam Connor, Baldwin\u2019s experience prevailed and he totalled 136 at Finca Cortes\u00edn to win by one shot, with Andreas Andersson and James Robinson another four strokes back joint third.<\/p>\n<p>Victory by Connor would have also given him the order of merit title but in the end that honor was secured by Andersson, as well as a card for the Alps Tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Baldwin has been there before. In 2011 he won the Challenge Tour de Espa\u00f1a in the Canary Islands, and in subsequent seasons competed regularly on the European Tour. On this occasion the 31-year-old Englishman was competing in the final event of the 2016-17 Gecko Tour, using Europe\u2019s premier winter circuit to prepare for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21543","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\/21543","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=21543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}