{"id":6559,"date":"2025-07-13T11:36:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T11:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/6559\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T11:36:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T11:36:03","slug":"pavelski-still-atop-leaderboard-at-american-century-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/6559\/","title":{"rendered":"Pavelski still atop leaderboard at American Century Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may have been moving day at the American Century Championship golf tournament, but former NHL forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/joe-pavelski-8470794\" title=\"Joe Pavelski\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Pavelski<\/a> stayed right where he was &#8212; at the top of the leaderboard.<\/p>\n<p>Pavelski, the former San Jose Sharks and Dallas Stars forward, put up 21 points on Saturday to hang on to a share of the lead, totaling 44 points through two rounds of the three-round tournament in Stateline, Nevada. Former MLS star and current broadcaster Taylor Twellman also had a big round, putting up 23 points to tie Pavelski for the top spot.<\/p>\n<p>Pavelski entered Saturday with a one-point lead on former NBA player and coach Vinny Del Negro, who fell to 11th place with 31 points.<\/p>\n<p>The annual event featuring celebrities from the world of sports and entertainment uses a Stableford format in which points are awarded for each hole&#8217;s score. A hole-in-one is worth eight points, an eagle six and a birdie three, with par being worth one and a bogey zero points. Negative-2 points are awarded for a double bogey or worse.<\/p>\n<p>Singer Jake Owen is three points off Pavelski&#8217;s pace with 41 points, with Carolina Panthers receiver Adam Theilen (40 points) and women&#8217;s golf legend Annika Sorenstam (37) rounding out the top five.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It may have been moving day at the American Century Championship golf tournament, but former NHL forward Joe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-6559","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\/6559","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=6559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}