{"id":8594,"date":"2017-11-27T10:17:57","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T10:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/?p=8594"},"modified":"2017-11-27T10:17:57","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T10:17:57","slug":"wade-takes-early-lead-in-race-to-dubai-with-hong-kong-triumph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wade-takes-early-lead-in-race-to-dubai-with-hong-kong-triumph\/","title":{"rendered":"Wade Takes Early Lead In Race To Dubai With Hong Kong Triumph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the dust barely settled on a captivating 2017 season which reached a dramatic conclusion at the DP World Tour Championship, Dubai at Jumeirah Golf Estates, the 2018 season got underway as Australia&#8217;s Wade Ormsby struck first blood in the Race to Dubai by securing his maiden title at the UBS Hong Kong Open.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 37 year old finally entered the winner&#8217;s circle in his 264<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0European Tour event in Fanling to earn 333,330 points and shoot to the top of the season-rankings. With a long season ahead, the victory gives him a great chance of making a second appearance at Jumeirah Golf Estates, four years after his first, when the season-ending DP World Tour Championship comes around again next November.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Having made four return trips to Qualifying School since first joining the European Tour in 2004 &#8211; and after battling his way to an 83<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0place finish on last season&#8217;s Race to Dubai &#8211; Ormsby will also now have the added luxury of an exemption until 2020.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8595\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Wade-Ormsby-in-action-lr-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Wade-Ormsby-in-action-lr-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Wade-Ormsby-in-action-lr-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Wade-Ormsby-in-action-lr-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Wade-Ormsby-in-action-lr-624x415.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the dust barely settled on a captivating 2017 season which reached a dramatic conclusion at the DP World Tour Championship, Dubai at Jumeirah Golf Estates, the 2018 season got underway as Australia&#8217;s Wade Ormsby struck first blood in the Race to Dubai by securing his maiden title at the UBS Hong Kong Open. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8596,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8594\/revisions\/8596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}