{"id":503263,"date":"2026-02-27T15:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T15:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/503263\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T15:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T15:10:08","slug":"andrea-pavan-seriously-injured-after-falling-down-lift-shaft-before-south-african-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/503263\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrea Pavan seriously injured after falling down lift shaft before South African Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;The past two days have been difficult, but I am in very good hands and to have so many players, caddies and staff visit and contact me has meant a lot to me.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The European-based tour had initially said Pavan had withdrawn from the tournament, which began on Thursday, through injury, but they did not provide further details because of &#8220;medical confidentiality&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A former team-mate of Pavan&#8217;s, Matt van Zandt, has set up a fundraiser to help  Pavan&#8217;s wife Audra and their three children with medical bills. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Van Zandt said doctors expect Pavan to remain in South Africa for &#8220;many weeks before he can be safely evaluated for travel back to the United States&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England&#8217;s Marco Penge, who plays on the European Tour with Pavan, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PengeMarco\/status\/2027221146492346530?s=20\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow\">wrote on X:, external<\/a> &#8220;Terrible news. Sending Andrea and his family all my love. He&#8217;s a great guy!&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pavan is a two-time DP World Tour winner, claiming victory at the Czech Masters in 2018 and the BMW International Open in 2019. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He added: &#8220;The past two days have been difficult, but I am in very good hands and to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-503263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}