{"id":12573,"date":"2012-07-19T13:02:39","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T11:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/update-1-golf-lane-tees-off-british-open-in-light-drizzle\/"},"modified":"2012-07-19T13:02:39","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T11:02:39","slug":"update-1-golf-lane-tees-off-british-open-in-light-drizzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-golf-lane-tees-off-british-open-in-light-drizzle\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Golf-Lane tees off British Open in light drizzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Tom Pilcher<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LYTHAM ST ANNES, England, July 19<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Englishman<br \/>\nBarry Lane got the 141st British Open underway in front of<br \/>\nhundreds of spectators who braved the drizzly conditions on<br \/>\nThursday when he hit onto the green at the 205-yard par-three<br \/>\nfirst hole.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Former Ryder Cup player Lane three-putted for a bogey while<br \/>\nAmerican playing partner James Driscoll, among the last<br \/>\ncompetitors to leave the practice range in the Wednesday evening<br \/>\nsun, started brightly by holing a lengthy birdie putt.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South African Garth Mulroy began with a par.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Lane, 52, had been in Michigan for the U.S. Senior Open and<br \/>\nonly arrived in Lytham on Tuesday for his 15th Open having<br \/>\npreviously missing the cut at the Lancashire links in 1988 and<br \/>\n1996 and finishing 30th in 2001.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Favourite Tiger Woods is among the early starters, going out<br \/>\nat 0942 local time (0842 GMT) with England&#8217;s Justin Rose and<br \/>\nSergio Garcia of Spain.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Defending champion Darren Clarke is also going out early<br \/>\nalongside former winner Ernie Els of South Africa and American<br \/>\nZach Johnson.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>World number one Luke Donald must wait until the afternoon<br \/>\nbefore setting out with four-times major champion Phil Mickelson<br \/>\nand Australian Geoff Ogilvy.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Editing by Alastair Himmer)<\/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>By Tom Pilcher LYTHAM ST ANNES, England, July 19 (Reuters) &#8211; Englishman Barry Lane got the 141st British Open underway in front of hundreds of spectators who braved the drizzly conditions on Thursday when he hit onto the green at the 205-yard par-three first hole. Former Ryder Cup player Lane three-putted for a bogey while [&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-12573","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\/12573","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=12573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}