{"id":12359,"date":"2012-07-13T00:32:15","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T22:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/golf-donald-makes-strong-start-to-scottish-open-defence\/"},"modified":"2012-07-13T00:32:15","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T22:32:15","slug":"golf-donald-makes-strong-start-to-scottish-open-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/golf-donald-makes-strong-start-to-scottish-open-defence\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf-Donald makes strong start to Scottish Open defence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">July 12<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; World number one Luke Donald started his<br \/>\nScottish Open defence strongly at Castle Stuart in Inverness on<br \/>\nThursday with a five-under-par 67 as Italian Francesco<br \/>\nMolinari&#8217;s blistering course record set the pace.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A free-flowing Molinari hit a 10-under 62 to lead Denmark&#8217;s<br \/>\nSoren Kjeldsen (65) on seven-under, with Ireland&#8217;s Shane Lowry<br \/>\nand England&#8217;s Robert Coles a stroke back.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Donald, in his 52nd week as the world&#8217;s top-ranked golfer,<br \/>\nwas seven-under through 13 but bogeyed two of his final five<br \/>\nholes.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Usually I&#8217;m pretty happy with 67, but I&#8217;m five back<br \/>\nalready,&#8221; Donald told the European Tour website<br \/>\n(www.europeantour.com).<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But there were a lot of positives there after three weeks<br \/>\naway from competition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Donald, chasing a first major title, is playing for the<br \/>\nfirst time since last month&#8217;s U.S. Open where he missed the cut.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Donald&#8217;s playing partner and three-times major champion<br \/>\nErnie Els opened with a 70 while four-times major-winning<br \/>\nAmerican Phil Mickelson was among the later starters.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting By Mark Pangallo in London, Edited by Tom Pilcher)<\/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 12 (Reuters) &#8211; World number one Luke Donald started his Scottish Open defence strongly at Castle Stuart in Inverness on Thursday with a five-under-par 67 as Italian Francesco Molinari&#8217;s blistering course record set the pace. A free-flowing Molinari hit a 10-under 62 to lead Denmark&#8217;s Soren Kjeldsen (65) on seven-under, with Ireland&#8217;s Shane Lowry [&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-12359","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\/12359","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=12359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}