{"id":21584,"date":"2017-01-18T10:18:25","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T10:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/historic-gecko-tour-win-by-noemi\/"},"modified":"2017-01-18T10:18:25","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T10:18:25","slug":"historic-gecko-tour-win-by-noemi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/historic-gecko-tour-win-by-noemi\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic Gecko Tour Win by Noemi"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rising Marbella star Noem\u00ed Jim\u00e9nez had produced some excellent results in her 2016 appearances on The Gecko Tour and it seemed only a matter of time before she would break through for her first victory. That moment came in the third event of 2017, and 11th of the 2016-17 season, at Atalaya Golf & Country Club. <\/p>\n

Twenty-three-year-old Jim\u00e9nez thus became the first women in the six-year history of the tour to lift a champion\u2019s trophy, but not before some anxious moments at the end of the two-day tournament. There was a four-way tie at the top of the leaderboard after regulation play, Noem\u00ed being joined by Englishmen Sam Connor and Steven Jones and another Costa del Sol-born star of the future, Mario Galiano, who had won the Gecko event played at Atalaya in December. <\/p>\n

The latter two dropped out after the first play-off hole, and Jim\u00e9nez sealed another birdie on the second extra hole to take the title.<\/p>\n

Understandably delighted with her victory, after a rookie year on the Ladies European Tour when she finished 87th on the order of merit, with two top-10 finishes, she now heads to Australia for the first event of the new LET season in February, before returning to Spain and attempting to add to her Gecko tally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rising Marbella star Noem\u00ed Jim\u00e9nez had produced some excellent results in her 2016 appearances on The Gecko Tour and it seemed only a matter of time before she would break through for her first victory. That moment came in the third event of 2017, and 11th of the 2016-17 season, at Atalaya Golf & Country […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21584","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\/21584","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=21584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}