{"id":30592,"date":"2017-09-22T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/grove-wins-pacific-northwest-pga-professional-championship-meridian-valleys-thornton-is-second\/"},"modified":"2017-09-22T11:42:48","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T18:42:48","slug":"grove-wins-pacific-northwest-pga-professional-championship-meridian-valleys-thornton-is-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/grove-wins-pacific-northwest-pga-professional-championship-meridian-valleys-thornton-is-second\/","title":{"rendered":"Grove wins Pacific Northwest PGA Professional Championship; Meridian Valley&#8217;s Thornton is second"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russell Grove of North Idaho College on Thursday won the Pacific Northwest PGA Professional Championship by five strokes over 2007 champion Brian Thornton of Meridian Valley Country Club.<\/p>\n<p>Jerrel Grow of Pronghorn Golf Course (Bend, Ore.) finished third.<\/p>\n<p>Grove shot a final-round 67 to finish at 15 under in the 54-hole event at the Circling Raven Golf Club in Worley, Idaho. Thornton shot rounds of 67, 68 and 71 to finish at 10-under par.<\/p>\n<p>The top seven professionals earned a spot and advanced directly to the PGA Professional Championship, presented by Club Car, Mercedes-Benz USA and Omega, at Bayonet Black Horse, Seaside, Calif., on June 17-20.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Grove, Thornton, and Grow, Trevor Fox of The GC at Black Rock (Coeur d&rsquo;Alene, Idaho); Bob Rannow of Sandpines (Florence, Ore.); John Cassidy of The Home Course (Dupont); and Tim Feenstra of Broadmoor GC (Seattle) earned spots.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the low 20 scores at the 2018 PGA Professional Championship will earn a place in the 100th PGA Championship at Bellerive CC, St. Louis on Aug. 16-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russell Grove of North Idaho College on Thursday won the Pacific Northwest PGA Professional Championship by five strokes over 2007 champion Brian Thornton of Meridian Valley Country Club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-30592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30592"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=30592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}