{"id":63704,"date":"2025-07-14T02:02:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T02:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/63704\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T02:02:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T02:02:30","slug":"former-dallas-stars-player-joe-pavelski-wins-the-american-century-celebrity-golf-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/63704\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Dallas Stars player Joe Pavelski wins the American Century celebrity golf event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Nev. \u2014 Former NHL player and Dallas Star Joe Pavelski won the American Century Championship on Sunday at Edgewood Tahoe, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/golf\/2025\/07\/13\/watch-former-dallas-stars-great-joe-pavelski-sinks-eagle-putt-to-win-american-century-championship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/golf\/2025\/07\/13\/watch-former-dallas-stars-great-joe-pavelski-sinks-eagle-putt-to-win-american-century-championship\/\">closing with an eagle to beat former pitcher John Smoltz by nine points<\/a> in a wire-to-wire victory in the celebrity event.<\/p>\n<p>Related:<a class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-related-story-module__82BFj\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/golf\/2025\/07\/13\/watch-former-dallas-stars-great-joe-pavelski-sinks-eagle-putt-to-win-american-century-championship\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch: Former Dallas Stars great Joe Pavelski sinks eagle putt to win American Century Championship<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Pavelski had a 29-point round under the modified Stableford scoring system to finish with 73. He was second last year behind former tennis player Mardy Fish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">\u201cI don\u2019t know what to say, actually,\u201d said Pavelski, who turned 41 on Friday. \u201cBut just an amazing week. This place is incredible. It means the world to me.\u201d<\/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\">Pavelski earned $150,000 from the $750,000 purse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Smoltz had a 28-point round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">\u201cI was trying to put heat on anybody, the top three,\u201d Smoltz said. \u201cI was just trying to climb as many people as I could.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Country star Jake Owen was third at 62 after a 21-point day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Taylor Twellman, the former soccer player who shared the second-round lead with Pavelski, was fourth at 61. He had 17 points in the final round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">NBA star Stephen Curry, the 2023 winner, was fifth at 58 after a 23-point round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Charles Barkley was 69th in the 90-player field at minus-17 points.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-subject-tag-list-only-list-only-module__DAHnF list-disc\"><a class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-subject-tag-list-only-list-only-module__BZO7y link-blue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/golf\/2025\/07\/13\/watch-former-dallas-stars-great-joe-pavelski-sinks-eagle-putt-to-win-american-century-championship\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch: Former Dallas Stars great Joe Pavelski sinks eagle putt to win American Century Championship<\/a><a class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-subject-tag-list-only-list-only-module__BZO7y link-blue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/golf\/2025\/07\/13\/chris-gotterup-wins-scottie-scheffler-finishes-in-a-tie-for-8th-at-scottish-open\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Gotterup wins, Scottie Scheffler finishes in a tie for 8th at Scottish Open<\/a><\/ul>\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":"SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Nev. \u2014 Former NHL player and Dallas Star Joe Pavelski won the American Century Championship&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":63705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,347,1596,1320,1430,62,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-63704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-dallas-stars","12":"tag-golf","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114849129866361273","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63704","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=63704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}