{"id":23774,"date":"2024-12-14T13:04:19","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T13:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/grant-thornton-invitational-patty-tavatanakit-and-jake-knapp-hold-first-round-lead\/"},"modified":"2024-12-14T13:04:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T13:04:20","slug":"grant-thornton-invitational-patty-tavatanakit-and-jake-knapp-hold-first-round-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/grant-thornton-invitational-patty-tavatanakit-and-jake-knapp-hold-first-round-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Grant Thornton Invitational: Patty Tavatanakit and Jake Knapp hold first-round lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Patty Tavatanakit and Jake Knapp hold a one-shot lead after the opening round of the Grant Thornton Invitational in Naples, Florida.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thailand&#8217;s Tavatanakit and American Knapp compiled a 14-under-par round of 58, with 12 birdies and one eagle in the PGA &amp; LPGA Tour mixed event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">American pair Jennifer Kupcho and Akshay Bhatia, and Canadian duo Brooke Henderson and Corey Connors are a shot further back in a tie for second.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Staged over three rounds at the Tiburon Golf Club from 13-15 December for a shared \u00a33.5m ($4m) purse, the event features 16 mixed pairs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">New Zealand&#8217;s Lydia Ko and Australia&#8217;s Jason Day, who won the inaugural Grant Thornton Invitational in 2023, ended their round with a birdie to move into a tie for sixth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The last mixed team event held by the PGA Tour and LPGA Tour was the 1999 JC Penney Classic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/golf\/articles\/cjwlq4wnle2o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patty Tavatanakit and Jake Knapp hold a one-shot lead after the opening round of the Grant Thornton Invitational in Naples, Florida. Thailand&#8217;s Tavatanakit and American Knapp compiled a 14-under-par round of 58, with 12 birdies and one eagle in the PGA &amp; LPGA Tour mixed event. American pair Jennifer Kupcho and Akshay Bhatia, and Canadian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23776,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23774\/revisions\/23776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}