{"id":10748,"date":"2012-05-27T22:09:29","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T20:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/05\/golf-els-says-sorry-for-wentworth-outburst\/"},"modified":"2012-05-27T22:09:29","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T20:09:29","slug":"golf-els-says-sorry-for-wentworth-outburst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/golf-els-says-sorry-for-wentworth-outburst\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf-Els says sorry for Wentworth outburst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Tony Jimenez<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">VIRGINIA WATER, England<\/span> May 27 (Reuters) &#8211; Course designer<br \/>\nErnie Els has apologised for his expletive-laden outburst about<br \/>\nthe softness of the greens in the PGA Championship at Wentworth,<br \/>\nEuropean Tour officials said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 42-year-old South African hit out at tour organisers and<br \/>\nthe West Course green-keeping staff on Saturday for not taking<br \/>\nthe bite out of the course during a third round when gusts of up<br \/>\nto 40-kph wind sent scores soaring.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Former world number one Els complained that insufficient<br \/>\nwater had been applied to the putting surfaces and sprinkled his<br \/>\ntirade with the occasional swear word.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ernie asked to see me this morning and apologised for his<br \/>\nintemperate language following the conclusion of his round<br \/>\nyesterday,&#8221; the tour&#8217;s chief executive George O&#8217;Grady said in a<br \/>\nstatement.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He stated he had already apologised to all the individuals<br \/>\nconcerned and offered a substantial donation to the European<br \/>\nTour Benevolent Trust which I accepted. The European Tour now<br \/>\nconsider this matter closed.&#8221;\t<\/p>\n<p> (Editing by Matt Barker)<\/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>By Tony Jimenez VIRGINIA WATER, England May 27 (Reuters) &#8211; Course designer Ernie Els has apologised for his expletive-laden outburst about the softness of the greens in the PGA Championship at Wentworth, European Tour officials said on Sunday. The 42-year-old South African hit out at tour organisers and the West Course green-keeping staff on Saturday [&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-10748","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\/10748","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=10748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}