{"id":10731,"date":"2012-05-26T22:09:18","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T20:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/05\/update-1-golf-angry-els-hits-out-over-wentworth-greens\/"},"modified":"2012-05-26T22:09:18","modified_gmt":"2012-05-26T20:09:18","slug":"update-1-golf-angry-els-hits-out-over-wentworth-greens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-golf-angry-els-hits-out-over-wentworth-greens\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Golf-Angry Els hits out over Wentworth greens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Former world number one in foul mood<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Els criticises tour and greens staff<\/p>\n<p> (Adds more quotes)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Tony Jimenez<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>VIRGINIA WATER, England, May 26 (Reuters) &#8211; Course designer<br \/>\nErnie Els let rip at the European Tour and Wentworth&#8217;s<br \/>\ngreenkeeping staff on Saturday after brushing aside strong winds<br \/>\nto move to the fringes of contention at the PGA Championship.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 42-year-old South African&#8217;s ire was raised after he hit<br \/>\nan excellent approach shot at the par-five 18th and the ball<br \/>\nbounded through the green into a deep bunker.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hit a four-iron and it pitched pin high,&#8221; Elsctold<br \/>\nreporters after shooting a two-under-par 70 for a five-under<br \/>\naggregate of 211, six behind third-round leader Luke Donald.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How much money did we spend on the 18th? We built a dam<br \/>\nthere. Why in the hell was the green not holding?<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Must I be a greenkeeper here?,&#8221; the former world number one<br \/>\nfumed. &#8220;I spoke to (the tour&#8217;s chief referee) John Paramor at<br \/>\nthe 15th and he said, &#8216;Yeah we watered last night.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I said, &#8216;You&#8217;ve got to triple that. You&#8217;ve got a damn<br \/>\n30-mph easterly breeze blowing. Put water on the greens &#8211; you<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t need to be a rocket scientist to figure that out.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Former world number one in foul mood * Els criticises tour and greens staff (Adds more quotes) By Tony Jimenez VIRGINIA WATER, England, May 26 (Reuters) &#8211; Course designer Ernie Els let rip at the European Tour and Wentworth&#8217;s greenkeeping staff on Saturday after brushing aside strong winds to move to the fringes of [&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-10731","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\/10731","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=10731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}