{"id":155850,"date":"2021-04-01T06:05:09","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T10:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=155850"},"modified":"2021-04-01T10:04:57","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T14:04:57","slug":"winner-of-pga-tour-in-punta-cana-is-a-cancer-survivor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/04\/01\/winner-of-pga-tour-in-punta-cana-is-a-cancer-survivor\/","title":{"rendered":"Winner of PGA Tour in Punta Cana is a cancer survivor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Joel-Dahmen-Diario-Hispaniola-e1617285844701.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-155884\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Golf Digest focuses on the story behind the win of professional golfer Joel Dahmen, a cancer survivor. \u201cI have seen life and death, and golf is not it \u2013 as much as we can portray it that way at times,\u201d reflected the golfer who on Sunday, 28 March 2021 won the Puntacana Resort &amp; Club Championship, including US$540,000 in cash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Golf Digest contrasts the celebration of the win and the difficulties the golfer has survived. \u201cFrom the nightmare of testicular cancer and all that goes into that battle \u2013 the fear, the chemotherapy, the doubts about your future \u2013 to a dream of being a winner on the PGA Tour after an 11-year grind of mini-tours and the stepladder advances on the lower tour levels, is genuine fairy tale stuff. It\u2019s easily in the feel-good category of outcomes. It reverberates through the chambers of destiny,\u201d shared the publication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know how I\u2019m here. It\u2019s crazy,\u201d Dahmen said with genuine wonder after negotiating a wind-swept golf course, out-dueled a determined opponent, and won his first tour title in his 111th try. With clutch pars on the final three holes, Dahmen carded a final-round 70 and posted 12-under 276, good enough to eke out a one-stroke victory over Rafael Campos.<br>Golf Digest points out that the Puntacana Resort &amp; Club Championship is the sort of event that offers a breakthrough opportunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfdigest.com\/story\/joel-dahmen-s-nighmare--dream-and-a-first-pga-tour-victory\">Golf Digest<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 April 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Golf Digest focuses on the story behind the win of professional golfer Joel Dahmen, a cancer survivor. \u201cI have seen life and death, and golf is not it \u2013 as much as we can portray it that way at times,\u201d reflected the golfer who on Sunday, 28 March 2021 won the Puntacana Resort &amp; Club &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/04\/01\/winner-of-pga-tour-in-punta-cana-is-a-cancer-survivor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[290,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155850"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155886,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155850\/revisions\/155886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}