{"id":493710,"date":"2026-02-27T13:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T13:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/493710\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T13:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T13:44:08","slug":"andrea-pavan-seriously-injured-after-falling-down-lift-shaft-before-south-african-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/493710\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrea Pavan seriously injured after falling down lift shaft before South African Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Italian golfer Andrea Pavan has been seriously injured after falling multiple floors down an open lift shaft before this week&#8217;s South African Open. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The accident occurred on Wednesday at Pavan&#8217;s private accommodation near Stellenbosch Golf Club; the lift doors opened but there was no lift car in the shaft, causing him to tumble three stories down. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pavan, 36, was rushed to a local hospital with significant injuries to his shoulder and back, including severe shoulder damage and fractures to several vertebrae. He has since undergone major surgery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The European Tour said Pavan had withdrawn from the tournament, which began on Thursday, through injury, but they did not provide further details because of &#8220;medical confidentiality&#8221;.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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Italian golfer Andrea Pavan has been seriously injured after falling multiple floors down an open lift shaft before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-493710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}