{"id":4337,"date":"2024-09-08T22:50:45","date_gmt":"2024-09-08T22:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/european-masters-matt-wallace-wins-play-off-against-alfredo-garcia-heredia\/"},"modified":"2024-09-08T22:50:45","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T22:50:45","slug":"european-masters-matt-wallace-wins-play-off-against-alfredo-garcia-heredia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/european-masters-matt-wallace-wins-play-off-against-alfredo-garcia-heredia\/","title":{"rendered":"European Masters: Matt Wallace wins play-off against Alfredo Garcia-Heredia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">England&#8217;s Matt Wallace held his nerve to win the European Masters in Switzerland after a play-off against Spain&#8217;s Alfredo Garcia-Heredia.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 34-year-old was pegged back after going into the final day with a four-shot lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But a birdie on the additional hole, the 18th, gave Wallace his fifth DP World Tour title &#8211; and first for six years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That was a hard day,&#8221; said an emotional Wallace, who had lost the 2022 tournament at Crans-sur-Sierre in a play-off to Thriston Lawrence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It brought back memories of when I lost two years ago &#8211; I wasn&#8217;t focused then, but that was focus there. I&#8217;m buzzing. I stuck at it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wallace was level for his final round but a birdie at the last allowed Garcia-Heredia to join him on 11 under after a four-under round of 66.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wallace&#8217;s compatriot Andrew &#8216;Beef&#8217; Johnston was also close to tears after a 66 enabled him to finish third on 10 under after struggling in recent years with injuries and form.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of relief &#8211; it&#8217;s been a tough couple of years,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/golf\/articles\/ckg20gzppkwo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England&#8217;s Matt Wallace held his nerve to win the European Masters in Switzerland after a play-off against Spain&#8217;s Alfredo Garcia-Heredia. The 34-year-old was pegged back after going into the final day with a four-shot lead. But a birdie on the additional hole, the 18th, gave Wallace his fifth DP World Tour title &#8211; and first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4339,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337\/revisions\/4339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}