{"id":11018,"date":"2012-06-02T10:34:02","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T08:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/update-2-golf-sabbatini-leads-memorial-tiger-trails-by-one\/"},"modified":"2012-06-02T10:34:02","modified_gmt":"2012-06-02T08:34:02","slug":"update-2-golf-sabbatini-leads-memorial-tiger-trails-by-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-2-golf-sabbatini-leads-memorial-tiger-trails-by-one\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2-Golf-Sabbatini leads Memorial, Tiger trails by one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Sabbatini takes control after firing a 69<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Woods lurks just one shot back<\/p>\n<p> (Adds detail, paras seven and 12)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Mark Lamport-Stokes<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>DUBLIN, Ohio, June 1 (Reuters) &#8211; Four-times champion Tiger<br \/>\nWoods looked close to his very best in tough conditions at the<br \/>\nMemorial tournament on Friday, ending a gruelling second round<br \/>\none shot behind pacesetting South African Rory Sabbatini.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In pursuit of a 73rd PGA Tour victory and his second this<br \/>\nyear, Woods carded a three-under-par 69 at a wet and windy<br \/>\nMuirfield Village Golf Club, finishing level with fellow<br \/>\nAmericans Scott Stallings (73) and Spencer Levin (72).<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m pleased with the way I played today,&#8221; Woods told<br \/>\nreporters after mixing five birdies with a double-bogey at the<br \/>\npar-three 12th.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I missed a couple out there, but overall I knew in these<br \/>\nconditions to shoot something in the 60s was going to be a<br \/>\npretty good effort.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sabbatini was one stroke better at six-under on 138, having<br \/>\nhad to settle for a second successive 69 after missing a<br \/>\nfive-foot birdie putt at the last.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Several big names, however, struggled on the soggy,<br \/>\nultra-long Muirfield Village layout with Masters champion Bubba<br \/>\nWatson and world number two Rory McIlroy, winner of last year&#8217;s<br \/>\nU.S. Open, among those missing the cut.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Sabbatini takes control after firing a 69 * Woods lurks just one shot back (Adds detail, paras seven and 12) By Mark Lamport-Stokes DUBLIN, Ohio, June 1 (Reuters) &#8211; Four-times champion Tiger Woods looked close to his very best in tough conditions at the Memorial tournament on Friday, ending a gruelling second round one [&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-11018","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\/11018","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=11018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}