{"id":7996,"date":"2025-07-14T02:03:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T02:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/7996\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T02:03:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T02:03:03","slug":"pavelski-wins-tahoe-celebrity-golf-event-barkley-is-69th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/7996\/","title":{"rendered":"Pavelski wins Tahoe celebrity golf event; Barkley is 69th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jul 13, 2025, 07:54 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Nev. &#8212; Former NHL player Joe Pavelski won the American Century Championship on Sunday at Edgewood Tahoe, closing with an eagle to beat former pitcher John Smoltz by nine points in a wire-to-wire victory in the celebrity event.<\/p>\n<p>Pavelski had a 29-point round under the modified Stableford scoring system to finish with 73 points. He was second last year behind former tennis player Mardy Fish.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know what to say, actually,&#8221; said Pavelski, who turned 41 on Friday. &#8220;But just an amazing week. This place is incredible. It means the world to me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports-betting\/story\/_\/id\/45713292\/charles-barkley-longest-shot-win-celebrity-golf-tournament\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/r1023092_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pavelski earned $150,000 from the $750,000 purse.<\/p>\n<p>Smoltz had a 28-point round.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was trying to put heat on anybody, the top three,&#8221; Smoltz said. &#8220;I was just trying to climb as many people as I could.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Country star Jake Owen was third at 62 after a 21-point day.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor Twellman, the former soccer player who shared the second-round lead with Pavelski, was fourth at 61. He had 17 points in the final round.<\/p>\n<p>NBA star Stephen Curry, the 2023 winner, was fifth at 58 after a 23-point round.<\/p>\n<p>Charles Barkley was 69th in the 90-player field at minus-17 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 13, 2025, 07:54 PM ET SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Nev. &#8212; Former NHL player Joe Pavelski won the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-7996","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\/7996","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=7996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}