{"id":10732,"date":"2012-05-26T22:09:19","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T20:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/05\/update-1-golf-donald-shrugs-off-strong-winds-to-lead-pga\/"},"modified":"2012-05-26T22:09:19","modified_gmt":"2012-05-26T20:09:19","slug":"update-1-golf-donald-shrugs-off-strong-winds-to-lead-pga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-golf-donald-shrugs-off-strong-winds-to-lead-pga\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Golf-Donald shrugs off strong winds to lead PGA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Donald on course for PGA Championship double<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Rose two strokes adrift in second position<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Angry Els hits out over Wentworth greens<\/p>\n<p> (Writes through, adds 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; Title holder<br \/>\nLuke Donald prompted cries of &#8216;Luke, Luke&#8217; after cajoling a<br \/>\n15-foot birdie putt into the cup at the 18th to open a<br \/>\ntwo-stroke lead after the PGA Championship third round on<br \/>\nSaturday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The world number two, who needs to finish eighth on his own<br \/>\nto take over from Rory McIlroy at the top of the rankings, was<br \/>\nat his scrambling best to return a three-under-par 69 for an<br \/>\n11-under 205 total as gusts up to 40-kph swirled around<br \/>\nWentworth.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That was by far my best round of the week,&#8221; Donald told<br \/>\nreporters. &#8220;The course is not geared towards a bombing<br \/>\nlong-hitter, it&#8217;s geared towards someone who can work the ball<br \/>\naround.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I went for a run at nine o&#8217;clock this morning and it was<br \/>\nblowing then so I knew it was going to be tough today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Fellow Briton Justin Rose claimed second spot on 207 after<br \/>\nanother 69, two ahead of Irishman Peter Lawrie (72).<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Donald on course for PGA Championship double * Rose two strokes adrift in second position * Angry Els hits out over Wentworth greens (Writes through, adds quotes) By Tony Jimenez VIRGINIA WATER, England, May 26 (Reuters) &#8211; Title holder Luke Donald prompted cries of &#8216;Luke, Luke&#8217; after cajoling a 15-foot birdie putt into the [&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-10732","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\/10732","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=10732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}