{"id":55739,"date":"2014-03-20T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/55739\/champions-crowned\/"},"modified":"2014-03-20T14:32:55","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T12:32:55","slug":"champions-crowned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2014\/03\/20\/champions-crowned\/","title":{"rendered":"Champions crowned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Germiston Golf Club recently hosted more than 120 entrants at their 2014 Club Championships.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-hole competition, played on March 15 and 16, almost didn&#8217;t happen due to heavy rains saturating the course.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>However, thanks to the sheer will and determination of the on-course staff, headed by golf director Darren Millington, not only was the course ready for play, but the field was rewarded with two days of uninterrupted sunshine.<\/p>\n<p>With players ranging in age from 14 to 75, &#8220;&#8216;The Gem&#8221;&#8216; (as the Germiston Golf Club is affectionately known) again proved why golf is a game that can be enjoyed by one and all.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Newly crowned club champion Tony Coyle won with an amazing score of 144 (level par) for two rounds.<\/p>\n<p>Nicolene Cambanis, GGC&#8217;s women&#8217;s club captain, walked away as the women&#8217;s club champion, while the senior club champion title went to local businessman Andr\u00e9 Hugo, from Andre&#8217;s Panel and Paint.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Events such as these would not be possible without generous sponsors, so we would like to thank our main sponsor, Mercury Plastics, as well as Mcubed Services for their support,&#8221; said Germiston Golf Club captain James Johnston.<\/p>\n<p>Festivities continued well after the prize-giving on the Sunday, as members and their families tucked into a superb buffet and enjoyed sundowners, with great music and a jumping castle for children.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re keen to become part of the second oldest golf club in the country, as well as a member of a golfing family unlike any other, contact The Gem on 011 827 7818.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='f5a3c3c60886486f624b163dec4533cc'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Germiston Golf Club&#8217;s Championships success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":55740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[1796,3124,979,3046,1416,2749,1119,1724],"class_list":["post-55739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-championships","tag-clubs-championships","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-golf-club","tag-golf","tag-puleng-sekabate","tag-sport-2","tag-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["championships","Club's Championships","germiston","germiston golf club","golf","Puleng Sekabate","sport","sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}