{"id":12044,"date":"2012-07-03T00:10:36","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T22:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/golf-thongchai-and-sterne-qualify-for-british-open\/"},"modified":"2012-07-03T00:10:36","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T22:10:36","slug":"golf-thongchai-and-sterne-qualify-for-british-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/golf-thongchai-and-sterne-qualify-for-british-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf-Thongchai and Sterne qualify for British Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">July 2<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Thailand&#8217;s Thongchai Jaidee, winner of<br \/>\nlast month&#8217;s Wales Open, and Richard Sterne of South Africa have<br \/>\nqualified for the British Open at Royal Lytham.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The duo booked their places at the July 19-22 major<br \/>\nchampionship after finishing in the top two in a mini European<br \/>\nTour money list following Sunday&#8217;s Irish Open.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am very happy to be competing in the Open &#8211; that&#8217;s going<br \/>\nto be exciting,&#8221; Thongchai told the tour&#8217;s official website<br \/>\n(www.europeantour.com).<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I knew if I made the cut in Ireland I would almost<br \/>\ncertainly qualify,&#8221; he added after finishing tied 18th at Royal<br \/>\nPortrush in County Antrim.<\/p>\n<p> (Writing by Tony Jimenez; editing by Alison Wildey)<\/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>July 2 (Reuters) &#8211; Thailand&#8217;s Thongchai Jaidee, winner of last month&#8217;s Wales Open, and Richard Sterne of South Africa have qualified for the British Open at Royal Lytham. The duo booked their places at the July 19-22 major championship after finishing in the top two in a mini European Tour money list following Sunday&#8217;s Irish [&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-12044","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\/12044","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=12044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}