{"id":1319,"date":"2013-04-19T19:56:57","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T19:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anthonypioppi.com\/?p=1319"},"modified":"2013-04-19T23:06:01","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T23:06:01","slug":"olesen-gonzalo-fernandez-castano-earn-pga-tour-membership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/blog\/1319\/olesen-gonzalo-fernandez-castano-earn-pga-tour-membership","title":{"rendered":"Olesen, Gonzalo Fern\u00e1ndez-Casta\u00f1o Earn Tour Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1320\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2013\/04\/173394_m16.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1320\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1320\" src=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2013\/04\/173394_m16-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1320\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gonzalo Fern\u00e1ndez-Casta\u00f1o after winning the 2012 BMW Italian Open presented by CartaSi<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The PGA TOUR announced today that Thorbj\u00f8rn Olesen of Denmark and Gonzalo Fern\u00e1ndez-Casta\u00f1o of Spain have accepted Special Temporary Membership for the remainder of the 2013 season. They join Jordan Speith who earned the exemption in March.<\/p>\n<p>With his tie for third at the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard on March 24, Fern\u00e1ndez-Casta\u00f1o earned $297,600 for a total of $502,100, surpassing the total earnings of the player who finished No. 150 on the 2012 money list ($474,295). With two subsequent starts, Fern\u00e1ndez-Casta\u00f1o has totaled $592,020 on the season.<\/p>\n<p>Olesen finished tied for sixth at the Masters Tournament last week, earning $278,000 for a total of $632,300 in five starts to qualify for Special Temporary Membership. Olesen is playing next week\u2019s Zurich Classic of New Orleans through his top-10 finish at the Masters Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Fern\u00e1ndez-Casta\u00f1o and Olesen are eligible for unlimited sponsor exemptions for the remainder of the 2013 PGA TOUR Season as they attempt to earn their 2013-14 TOUR cards through the Non-member Money List or Non-member FedExCup Points List.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PGA TOUR announced today that Thorbj\u00f8rn Olesen of Denmark and Gonzalo Fern\u00e1ndez-Casta\u00f1o of Spain have accepted Special Temporary Membership&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/blog\/1319\/olesen-gonzalo-fernandez-castano-earn-pga-tour-membership\" title=\"ReadOlesen, Gonzalo Fern\u00e1ndez-Casta\u00f1o Earn Tour Cards\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2980,21,251739],"tags":[822775,813362],"class_list":["post-1319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-blog","category-pga-tour","tag-gonzalo-fernandez-castano","tag-thorbjorn-olesen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1319"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1325,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions\/1325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}