{"id":267,"date":"2017-09-13T13:29:59","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T13:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/middleeastevents.com\/blog\/?p=267"},"modified":"2017-09-13T13:29:59","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T13:29:59","slug":"mena-tour-dubai-creek-open-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/mena-tour-dubai-creek-open-final\/","title":{"rendered":"MENA Tour-Dubai Creek Open-Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MG Keyser survived a shaky start and a late wobble to complete a tense wire-to-wire victory in the Dubai Creek Open on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old South African, two in front overnight, closed with a level-par 71 to finish on 13-under for the tournament, beating his nearest rival Rayhan Thomas of India by two shots for his maiden win on the MENA Tour.<\/p>\n<p>Keyser, who is now based in Dubai, made a bogey-double bogey start, but showed steely resilience, picking up three shots in his next four holes to regain the lead. Just when he appeared to be cruising home, Keyser double-bogeyed the 17th after smashing his drive into the Dubai Creek, but he kept his calm under pressure.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-268 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/MT-CREEK-PRSENTATION.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1807\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/MT-CREEK-PRSENTATION.jpg 2500w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/MT-CREEK-PRSENTATION-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/MT-CREEK-PRSENTATION-768x555.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/MT-CREEK-PRSENTATION-1024x740.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MG Keyser survived a shaky start and a late wobble to complete a tense wire-to-wire victory in the Dubai Creek Open on Wednesday. The 30-year-old South African, two in front overnight, closed with a level-par 71 to finish on 13-under for the tournament, beating his nearest rival Rayhan Thomas of India by two shots for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions\/269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}