{"id":9544,"date":"2026-03-03T03:10:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T03:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=9544"},"modified":"2026-03-03T03:10:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T03:10:03","slug":"andrea-pavan-seriously-injured-after-falling-down-lift-shaft-before-south-african-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=9544","title":{"rendered":"Andrea Pavan seriously injured after falling down lift shaft before South African Open"},"content":{"rendered":"


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He added: “The past two days have been difficult, but I am in very good hands and to have so many players, caddies and staff visit and contact me has meant a lot to me.” <\/p>\n

The European-based tour had initially said Pavan had withdrawn from the tournament, which began on Thursday, through injury, but they did not provide further details because of “medical confidentiality”. <\/p>\n

A former team-mate of Pavan’s, Matt van Zandt, has set up a fundraiser to help Pavan’s wife Audra and their three children with medical bills. <\/p>\n

Van Zandt said doctors expect Pavan to remain in South Africa for “many weeks before he can be safely evaluated for travel back to the United States”. <\/p>\n

England’s Marco Penge, who plays on the European Tour with Pavan, wrote on X:, external<\/span><\/a> “Terrible news. Sending Andrea and his family all my love. He’s a great guy!” <\/p>\n

Pavan is a two-time DP World Tour winner, claiming victory at the Czech Masters in 2018 and the BMW International Open in 2019. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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He added: “The past two days have been difficult, but I am in very good hands and to have so many players, caddies and staff visit and contact me has meant a lot to me.” The European-based tour had initially said Pavan had withdrawn from the tournament, which began on Thursday, through injury, but they<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}