{"id":10513,"date":"2012-05-05T08:36:49","date_gmt":"2012-05-05T06:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/05\/update-2-golf-woods-misses-quail-hollow-cut-watney-leads\/"},"modified":"2012-05-05T08:36:49","modified_gmt":"2012-05-05T06:36:49","slug":"update-2-golf-woods-misses-quail-hollow-cut-watney-leads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-2-golf-woods-misses-quail-hollow-cut-watney-leads\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2-Golf-Woods misses Quail Hollow cut, Watney leads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Woods cards a 73 to miss cut by one shot<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Watney takes control with an eight-under-par 64<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Mickelson and Westwood narrowly advance<\/p>\n<p> (Adds further detail, quotes)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>May 4 (Reuters) &#8211; A frustrated Tiger Woods missed a cut for<br \/>\nonly the eighth time in a PGA Tour event while Nick Watney<br \/>\nstormed into a one-shot lead in Friday&#8217;s second round of the<br \/>\nWells Fargo Championship in Charlotte, North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Former world number one Woods battled to a one-over-par 73<br \/>\nat Quail Hollow Club, struggling with his putter, failing to<br \/>\nbirdie any of the four par-five holes and finishing one stroke<br \/>\noutside the cutline.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The greatest player of his generation and arguably the best<br \/>\nof all time, Woods has now missed four cuts in his last 36 PGA<br \/>\nTour appearances after missed the same number in his previous<br \/>\n231 starts.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The entire week I didn&#8217;t play the par-fives well,&#8221; Woods<br \/>\ntold reporters after parring his last nine holes for an even-par<br \/>\ntotal of 144, a distant 12 strokes behind fellow American Watney<br \/>\nwho fired an eight-under 64.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You just can&#8217;t do that, especially when all of them are<br \/>\nreachable with irons. I didn&#8217;t take care of the par-fives,<br \/>\nmissed a couple of other little short ones for birdie and<br \/>\nconsequently got no momentum during the round.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Asked to explain why he had struggled, Woods replied: &#8220;It<br \/>\nall has to do with my setup. If I get over the golf ball and I<br \/>\nfeel uncomfortable, I hit it great.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Woods cards a 73 to miss cut by one shot * Watney takes control with an eight-under-par 64 * Mickelson and Westwood narrowly advance (Adds further detail, quotes) May 4 (Reuters) &#8211; A frustrated Tiger Woods missed a cut for only the eighth time in a PGA Tour event while Nick Watney stormed into [&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-10513","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\/10513","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=10513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}