{"id":15739,"date":"2025-12-01T00:44:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T16:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=15739"},"modified":"2025-12-01T00:44:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T16:44:36","slug":"singapore-golfer-shannon-tan-wins-ladies-european-tour-order-of-merit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=15739","title":{"rendered":"Singapore golfer Shannon Tan wins Ladies European Tour Order of Merit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SINGAPORE: Golfer Shannon Tan on Sunday (Nov 30) became the first Singaporean to win the Ladies European Tour Order of Merit, a season-long competition to crown the tour&#8217;s top player.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old had gone into the final tournament of the season at the <span>Andaluc\u00eda Costa del Sol Open de Espa\u00f1a neck-and-neck with English rival Mimi Rhodes, with the two golfers posting the same scorecard in the opening three rounds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Heading into the tournament, Rhodes needed to finish third or better and ahead of Tan, while Tan had to finish 44th or better to seal the Order of Merit title.<\/p>\n<p>Tan closed with a one-over-par 73 on Sunday for a seven-under-par total of 281, finishing tied for 16th. Rhodes finished tied for seventh.<\/p>\n<p>Singapore Golf Association CEO Joshua Ho said: &#8220;<span>We are delighted to extend our congratulations to Shannon for winning the prestigious Order of Merit crown on the Ladies European Tour, becoming the first Singaporean to do so.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;It has been a fabulous weekend for Singapore golf with James Leow securing his breakthrough on the Asian Development Tour and Shannon now winning the season-long order of merit in Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;We are confident such achievements by our Singaporean golfers will continue to inspire and raise the popularity of golf in Singapore.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/sport\/golfer-shannon-tan-ladies-european-tour-order-merit-5498296\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: Golfer Shannon Tan on Sunday (Nov 30) became the first Singaporean to win the Ladies European Tour Order of Merit, a season-long competition to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--6pqY6FHW--\/c_crop,h_810,w_1440,x_0,y_429\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2025\/11\/30\/shannon_tan.jpg?itok=sGev-RP1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5131,11291,2166,11293,109,11292,22,2748,1262,1011],"class_list":["post-15739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-european","tag-golfer","tag-ladies","tag-merit","tag-order","tag-shannon","tag-singapore","tag-tan","tag-tour","tag-wins","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}