{"id":3260,"date":"2018-02-25T12:11:12","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T12:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/middleeastevents.com\/blog\/?p=3260"},"modified":"2018-02-25T12:11:12","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T12:11:12","slug":"pepperell-lifts-the-pearl-after-dramatic-commercial-bank-qatar-masters-triumph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/pepperell-lifts-the-pearl-after-dramatic-commercial-bank-qatar-masters-triumph\/","title":{"rendered":"Pepperell Lifts The Pearl After Dramatic Commercial Bank Qatar Masters Triumph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Eddie Pepperell held off the challenge of good friend Oliver Fisher to win his first European Tour title after a thrilling conclusion to the 21<sup>st<\/sup>Commercial Bank Qatar Masters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Englishman entered the final day at Doha Golf Club level with his compatriot at the top of the leaderboard and while he opened up a three-shot lead at the turn, an impressive fightback by Fisher meant the pair were separated by a just single stroke as they went up the par five last.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was advantage Fisher after two shots with Pepperell in the rough after both men laid-up but the 27 year old hit an excellent third to set up a par which his playing partner could only match.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pepperell&#8217;s closing round of 70 got him to 18 under, with Fisher signing for a 71, one shot back, and Swede Marcus Kinhult finishing at 16 under after a 68. Spanish duo Gonzalo Fernandez-Casta\u00f1o and Pablo Larraz\u00e1bal, Frenchman Gr\u00e9gory Havret and Italian Renato Paratore tied fourth at 15 under.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What a day,&#8221; said Pepperell after receiving the iconic Pearl Trophy for winning his maiden European Tour title in his 129<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0appearance on the European Tour which saw him rocket from 188<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0to 13<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0in the season-long rankings. &#8220;Oli made it really tough and I made it tough for myself at the end there with the second shot at 18.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3261 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Eddie-Pepperell-lr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4420\" height=\"2942\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Eddie-Pepperell-lr.jpg 4420w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Eddie-Pepperell-lr-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Eddie-Pepperell-lr-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Eddie-Pepperell-lr-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4420px) 100vw, 4420px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Eddie Pepperell held off the challenge of good friend Oliver Fisher to win his first European Tour title after a thrilling conclusion to the 21stCommercial Bank Qatar Masters. The Englishman entered the final day at Doha Golf Club level with his compatriot at the top of the leaderboard and while he opened up a three-shot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3261,"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-3260","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\/3260","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=3260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3262,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260\/revisions\/3262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}