{"id":21663,"date":"2016-10-17T10:01:32","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T10:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/memorable-debut-by-spanish-ace\/"},"modified":"2016-10-17T10:01:32","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T10:01:32","slug":"memorable-debut-by-spanish-ace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/memorable-debut-by-spanish-ace\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorable Debut By Spanish Ace"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It will make a good pub quiz question at the end of the season. Who carded the first hole-in-one on the 2016-17 US PGA Tour? And the answer\u2026 Spain\u2019s emerging star Jon Rah, who turned pro towards the end of the 2015-16 season, won enough prizemoney to earn a card for the new season without having to go through the arduous qualifying process, and made his \u201cofficial\u201d debut in the Safeway Open. <\/p>\n

And what a debut! On his second hole at the Silverado Resort & Spa in California, the par-three 11th, his fifth shot in the tournament disappeared into the hole. It was the 21-year-old\u2019s first ace on the Tour \u2013 he hit a seven-iron from 158 meters \u2013 and the quickest of the new season. <\/p>\n

Later, rather than invite the press to a traditional beer, he noted that \u2013 as the tournament was being played in the renowned Napa Valley wine area \u2013 much more appropriate to give them a few bottles of William Hill North Coast Cabernet.<\/p>\n

Rahm ended up carding a six-under 66 for the day, slipped back down the field over the next two rounds, then rebounded with a closing 67, a 12-under total of 276 and a share of 15th, six behind winner Brendan Steele.<\/p>\n

Fellow Spaniard Gonzalo Fern\u00e1ndez Casta\u00f1o, returning to the Tour as a full member after qualifying through the Webb.com play-offs, was less successful, carding one-under at the halfway stage and missing the cut by two shots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It will make a good pub quiz question at the end of the season. Who carded the first hole-in-one on the 2016-17 US PGA Tour? And the answer\u2026 Spain\u2019s emerging star Jon Rah, who turned pro towards the end of the 2015-16 season, won enough prizemoney to earn a card for the new season without […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21663","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=21663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}