{"id":63434,"date":"2025-07-13T23:31:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T23:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/63434\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T23:31:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T23:31:23","slug":"former-dallas-stars-great-joe-pavelski-sinks-eagle-putt-to-win-american-century-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/63434\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Dallas Stars great Joe Pavelski sinks eagle putt to win American Century Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">While some professional athletes step away from competition after retiring, that\u2019s far from the case with former Dallas Star Joe Pavelski.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BR_OpenIce\/status\/1944520063840813504?t=XCMxa___t8PKLQjFrKGlUA&amp;s=19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BR_OpenIce\/status\/1944520063840813504?t=XCMxa___t8PKLQjFrKGlUA&amp;s=19\">former forward for the Stars sank an eagle putt<\/a> to win <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/golf\/2025\/07\/11\/former-stars-standout-joe-pavelski-builds-early-lead-in-2025-american-century-championship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/golf\/2025\/07\/11\/former-stars-standout-joe-pavelski-builds-early-lead-in-2025-american-century-championship\/\">the American Century Championship<\/a> on Sunday afternoon in Lake Tahoe, Nevada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Pavelski finished with a 73 in the final round on Sunday and has competed in the American Century Championship nine times.<\/p>\n<p>Sports Roundup<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-cta-social-module__zWZy- mb-4\">Get the latest D-FW sports news, analysis and opinion delivered straight to your inbox. Plus, Kevin Sherrington&#8217;s A La Carte.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">He finished just ahead of former MLB pitching great John Smoltz and former USMNT forward and current broadcaster Taylor Twellman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Pavelski played over 1,500 NHL regular-season and playoff games with the San Jose Sharks and Stars since making his debut in the league in 2006. He was the NHL postseason\u2019s leading goal-scorer nine years ago, tied for the most games played in the 2020 playoff bubble and is one of the most admired forwards of his generation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/golf\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Find more golf coverage from <\/b><b>The Dallas Morning News<\/b><b> here<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While some professional athletes step away from competition after retiring, that\u2019s far from the case with former Dallas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":63435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,1320,1430,62,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-63434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-stars","11":"tag-golf","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114848535928880123","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}