{"id":10126,"date":"2012-04-20T16:21:44","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T14:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/golf-no-fairytale-debut-as-guan-13-misses-china-open-cut\/"},"modified":"2012-04-20T16:21:44","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T14:21:44","slug":"golf-no-fairytale-debut-as-guan-13-misses-china-open-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/golf-no-fairytale-debut-as-guan-13-misses-china-open-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf-No fairytale debut as Guan, 13, misses China Open cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">April 20<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Guan Tian-Lang missed the halfway cut<br \/>\nat the China Open on Friday, a day after the 13-year-old Chinese<br \/>\nbecame the youngest golfer to play in a European Tour event.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The schoolboy prodigy followed up his opening round<br \/>\nfive-over-par 77 with an erratic 79 to drop way below the cut<br \/>\nline at Tianjin&#8217;s Binhai Lake Golf Club.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Guan, who earned a slice of history by just teeing off at<br \/>\nTianjin, found going really tough on Friday and began with the<br \/>\nfirst of his seven bogeys.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 10th tee starter managed just a couple of birdies to go<br \/>\nwith a double bogey.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Frenchman Jean-Baptiste Gonnet and Briton Gary Boyd shot 67s<br \/>\nto share the lead at 11-under 133 and stay in hunt for their<br \/>\nmaiden European Tour title this weekend.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South African Branden Grace trailed them by one shot while<br \/>\ndefending champion Nicolas Colsaerts was in fourth on nine under<br \/>\npar.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Writing by Amlan Chakraborty in New Delhi; editing by Mark<br \/>\nMeadows)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 20 (Reuters) &#8211; Guan Tian-Lang missed the halfway cut at the China Open on Friday, a day after the 13-year-old Chinese became the youngest golfer to play in a European Tour event. The schoolboy prodigy followed up his opening round five-over-par 77 with an erratic 79 to drop way below the cut line at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-10126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}