{"id":7940,"date":"2015-09-25T12:23:58","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T19:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/feenstra-wins-third-pacific-northwest-pga-professional-championship\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T08:15:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T15:15:39","slug":"feenstra-wins-third-pacific-northwest-pga-professional-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/feenstra-wins-third-pacific-northwest-pga-professional-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Feenstra wins third Pacific Northwest PGA Professional Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong>For the Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>PGA pro Tim Feenstra of Seattle&#8217;s Broadmoor Golf Course came from five strokes behind fellow pro Brian Thornton of Meridian Valley Country Club to win his third Pacific Northwest PGA Professional Championship in a playoff Thursday on the Canyon River course in Missoula, Mont.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Feenstra had six birdies on his way to his 6-under par 66 to force Thornton into a playoff.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>On the first hole of the playoff, Feenstra birdied to win after Thornton&#8217;s birdie putt narrowly missed.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Feenstra has previously won this event back in 2011 at Illahe Hills and 2013 at Meadow Springs.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>PGA pro Clint Ables of Wildhorse Resort (Pentleton, Ore.) and PGA pro Brian Nosler of Golf in the Pearl (Portland) finished in a tie for third place.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Tim Feenstra, Brian Thornton, Clint Ables, Brian Nosler, Tony Robydek, Jason Aichele, Ryan Malby and Jason Pitt earned spots and advanced directly to the PGA Professional Championship on June 26-29 at Turning Stone Resorts Atunyote and Shenendoah courses in Verona, New York.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Additionally, the low 20 scores at the 49th PGA Professional Championship next June will earn a place in the 98th<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>PGA Championship on July 28-31, 2016, at Baltusrol Golf Club, Lower Course, Springfield, N.J.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PGA pro Tim Feenstra of Seattle&#8217;s Broadmoor Golf Course came from five strokes behind fellow pro Brian Thornton of Meridian Valley Country Club to win his third Pacific Northwest PGA Professional Championship in a playoff Thursday on the Canyon River course in Missoula, Mont.<\/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-7940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7940"}],"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=7940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7940"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=7940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}