SINGAPORE: Golfer Shannon Tan on Sunday (Nov 30) became the first Singaporean to win the Ladies European Tour Order of Merit, a season-long competition to crown the tour’s top player.<\/p>\n
The 21-year-old had gone into the final tournament of the season at the Andaluc\u00eda Costa del Sol Open de Espa\u00f1a neck-and-neck with English rival Mimi Rhodes, with the two golfers posting the same scorecard in the opening three rounds.<\/p>\n
Heading into the tournament, Rhodes needed to finish third or better and ahead of Tan, while Tan had to finish 44th or better to seal the Order of Merit title.<\/p>\n
Tan closed with a one-over-par 73 on Sunday for a seven-under-par total of 281, finishing tied for 16th. Rhodes finished tied for seventh.<\/p>\n
Singapore Golf Association CEO Joshua Ho said: “We are delighted to extend our congratulations to Shannon for winning the prestigious Order of Merit crown on the Ladies European Tour, becoming the first Singaporean to do so.<\/p>\n
“It has been a fabulous weekend for Singapore golf with James Leow securing his breakthrough on the Asian Development Tour and Shannon now winning the season-long order of merit in Europe.<\/p>\n
“We are confident such achievements by our Singaporean golfers will continue to inspire and raise the popularity of golf in Singapore.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SINGAPORE: Golfer Shannon Tan on Sunday (Nov 30) became the first Singaporean to win the Ladies European Tour…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-319994","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}