{"id":1044,"date":"2010-08-24T20:55:20","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T04:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2010-08-24T20:55:20","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T04:55:20","slug":"arjun-atwal-became-the-first-indian-to-win-on-the-pga-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=1044","title":{"rendered":"Arjun Atwal became the first Indian  to win on the PGA Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">Arjun Atwal became the first Indian and just the  sixth Asian-born player to win on the PGA Tour when he secured a  one-stroke victory at the Wyndham Championship on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">Atwal joined Japanese trio Isao Aoki,  Shigeki Maruyama and Ryuji Imada and South Koreans K.J. Choi and Y.E.  Yang in an elite but growing club of champions from world&#8217;s most  populous continent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"210px\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moneycontrol.com\/news_image_files\/Arjun_atwal_190.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Arjun Atwal becomes first Indian to win on PGA Tour\" width=\"190px\" height=\"190px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr height=\"8px\">\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">The 37-year-old, who now lives in  Florida, sank a pressure-packed seven-foot par putt at the final hole to  edge American David Toms at Sedgefield.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">His final round of 67 left him on  20-under 260, ignited by an opening day 61. Toms closed with a 64.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arjun Atwal became the first Indian and just the sixth Asian-born player to win on the PGA Tour when he secured a one-stroke victory at the Wyndham Championship on Sunday. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=1044\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,125,1673,921,190],"tags":[8456,8457,436,8458,8459,8460,8461],"class_list":["post-1044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs-club","category-current-affairs-today","category-sports","category-sports-gk","category-sports-today-in-the-news","tag-arjun-atwal","tag-first-indian","tag-golf","tag-golf-champions","tag-golf-play","tag-pga-tour","tag-to-win-on-the-pga-tour","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}