{"id":12471,"date":"2012-07-17T00:53:43","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T22:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/update-2-golf-woods-to-partner-garcia-and-rose-at-british-open\/"},"modified":"2012-07-17T00:53:43","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T22:53:43","slug":"update-2-golf-woods-to-partner-garcia-and-rose-at-british-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-2-golf-woods-to-partner-garcia-and-rose-at-british-open\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2-Golf-Woods to partner Garcia and Rose at British Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Woods bidding to end four-year major drought<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* World number one Donald to partner Mickelson<\/p>\n<p> (Adds quotes)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Tony Jimenez<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>LYTHAM, England, July 16 (Reuters) &#8211; Former world number one<br \/>\nTiger Woods will play alongside Sergio Garcia and Justin Rose in<br \/>\nthe opening two rounds of this week&#8217;s British Open.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Woods, Spaniard Garcia and Briton Rose will tee off at 0942<br \/>\n(0842 GMT) in Thursday&#8217;s first round.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old American is looking to end a four-year<br \/>\ndrought in major championships, having won the last of his 14<br \/>\n&#8216;big four&#8217; titles at the 2008 U.S. Open.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Garcia, 32, and Rose, 31, are among the best modern-day<br \/>\nplayers never to have won a major.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Among the other highlights of Monday&#8217;s draw was the grouping<br \/>\nof world number one Luke Donald with American left-hander Phil<br \/>\nMickelson and Australian Geoff Ogilvy at 1443.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>World number two Rory McIlroy will partner 2010 British Open<br \/>\nchampion Louis Oosthuizen and 2011 U.S. PGA Championship winner<br \/>\nKeegan Bradley at 1421.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Woods bidding to end four-year major drought * World number one Donald to partner Mickelson (Adds quotes) By Tony Jimenez LYTHAM, England, July 16 (Reuters) &#8211; Former world number one Tiger Woods will play alongside Sergio Garcia and Justin Rose in the opening two rounds of this week&#8217;s British Open. Woods, Spaniard Garcia and [&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-12471","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\/12471","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=12471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}