{"id":877980,"date":"2026-08-31T07:52:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T07:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/877980\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T07:52:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T07:52:31","slug":"steven-alker-wins-ally-challenge-for-second-straight-pga-tour-champions-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/877980\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Alker wins Ally Challenge for second straight PGA Tour Champions victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">GRAND BLANC, Mich. (AP) \u2014 Steven Alker won the Ally Challenge on Sunday for his second straight PGA Tour Champions victory and third of the season, closing with a 4-under 68 at Warwick Hills for a three-stroke margin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Alker won the Rogers Charity Classic last week in Calgary, Alberta, beating Y.E. Yang with a birdie putt on the first hole of a playoff. The 55-year-old New Zealander also won the Cologuard Classic in March in Tucson, Arizona, topping Padraig Harrington on the first extra hole.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Alker finished at 15-under 201 for his 13th career victory on the 50-and-over tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Retief Goosen was second after a 64.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Two-time defending champion Stewart Cink (67), Greg Chalmers (69) and second-round leader Michael Block (74) tied for third at 11 under. The 50-year-old Block was making his fifth start on tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Henrik Stenson tied for 27th in his tour debut. He closed with a 69 to reach 5 under.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"> See AP\u2019s full golf coverage here <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GRAND BLANC, Mich. (AP) \u2014 Steven Alker won the Ally Challenge on Sunday for his second straight PGA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":877981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-877980","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\/877980","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=877980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}