{"id":11819,"date":"2012-06-25T11:54:40","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T09:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/update-1-golf-australian-leishman-ends-wait-for-first-pga-title\/"},"modified":"2012-06-25T11:54:40","modified_gmt":"2012-06-25T09:54:40","slug":"update-1-golf-australian-leishman-ends-wait-for-first-pga-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-golf-australian-leishman-ends-wait-for-first-pga-title\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Golf-Australian Leishman ends wait for first PGA title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Leishman wins maiden tour title<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Hoffman, Thatcher rue poor finishes<\/p>\n<p> (Adds detail, quotes)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By John Nestor<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>CROMWELL, Connecticut, June 24 (Reuters) &#8211; Australian Marc<br \/>\nLeishman faced a long and nervous wait on Sunday but ultimately<br \/>\nhis sizzling final round eight-under-par 62 proved enough to<br \/>\ngive him his maiden PGA Tour title at the Travelers<br \/>\nChampionship.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Leishman finished the tournament at 14-under 266, a stroke<br \/>\nin front of 2010 Travelers winner Bubba Watson and Charley<br \/>\nHoffman, who was left ruing a double-bogey, bogey finish that<br \/>\ndropped him from 16-under.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s an incredible feeling, I didn&#8217;t think I would be in<br \/>\nthis position when I started this morning,&#8221; Leishman said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This isn&#8217;t the way I thought I would pick up my first win,<br \/>\nbut I&#8217;m not complaining. I&#8217;ll take a win any way I can get it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Roland Thatcher also had a disappointing finish when,<br \/>\nneeding a birdie at the last to force a playoff, he hit his<br \/>\napproach from the fairway into a greenside bunker and finished<br \/>\nwith a bogey.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Thatcher finished at 12-under in a tie for fourth with<br \/>\nBriton Brian Davis, South African Tim Clark and fellow American<br \/>\nJohn Rollins.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Leishman wins maiden tour title * Hoffman, Thatcher rue poor finishes (Adds detail, quotes) By John Nestor CROMWELL, Connecticut, June 24 (Reuters) &#8211; Australian Marc Leishman faced a long and nervous wait on Sunday but ultimately his sizzling final round eight-under-par 62 proved enough to give him his maiden PGA Tour title at 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-11819","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\/11819","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=11819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}