{"id":6256,"date":"2011-09-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.golfinspain.es.local\/b\/alejandro-canizares\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T12:05:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T10:05:50","slug":"alejandro-canizares","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.golfinspain.com\/b\/spanish-players\/alejandro-canizares\/","title":{"rendered":"Alejandro Ca\u00f1izares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Born: <strong>9 January 1983, Madrid<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Turned pro: <strong>2006<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of two golf pro sons of veteran Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda, Alejandro Ca\u00f1izares launched his own European Tour career in superb style, winning the 2006 Imperial Collection Russian Open on just his third start as an affiliate member \u2013 beating the record of Sergio Garc\u00eda and Graeme McDowell (both winning on their fourth starts as affiliates). This meant he and his father also became only the third father-son combination to win on the European Tour, following fellow Spaniards Antonio and Ignacio Garrido and Americans Craig and Kevin Stadler. During a celebrated amateur career at Arizona State University he was NCAA champion in 2003, earned All American honours four times and was involved in three winning Palmer Cup teams.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"lcp_catlist\" id=\"lcp_instance_0\"><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born: 9 January 1983, Madrid Turned pro: 2006 One of two golf pro sons of veteran Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda, Alejandro Ca\u00f1izares launched his own European Tour career in superb style, winning the 2006 Imperial Collection Russian Open on just his third start as an affiliate member \u2013 beating the record of Sergio Garc\u00eda and Graeme McDowell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":6268,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mbp_gutenberg_autopost":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6256","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golfinspain.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golfinspain.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golfinspain.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golfinspain.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golfinspain.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.golfinspain.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6256\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golfinspain.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golfinspain.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}