{"id":12584,"date":"2012-07-20T01:03:24","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T23:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/wrapup-2-golf-scott-sets-pace-with-64-woods-lurks-ominously\/"},"modified":"2012-07-20T01:03:24","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T23:03:24","slug":"wrapup-2-golf-scott-sets-pace-with-64-woods-lurks-ominously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wrapup-2-golf-scott-sets-pace-with-64-woods-lurks-ominously\/","title":{"rendered":"WRAPUP 2-Golf-Scott sets pace with 64, Woods lurks ominously"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Australian Scott blazes way round Lytham<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Woods tucks in behind on three-under 67<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Johnson, Lawrie, McIlroy, Watson, Els, McDowell start well<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Westwood and Mickelson off the pace with 73s<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Ed Osmond<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>LYTHAM ST ANNES, England, July 19 (Reuters) &#8211; Australian<br \/>\nAdam Scott set the pace with a course record-equalling 64 and a<br \/>\nsteely-looking Tiger Woods rattled off four early birdies in a<br \/>\ncomposed first-round 67 at the British Open on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>World number 13 Scott conjured up eight birdies in benign<br \/>\nconditions at Lytham to finish on six under par, one ahead of<br \/>\nScotland&#8217;s Paul Lawrie, American Zach Johnson and Belgian<br \/>\nNicolas Colsaerts.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Former world number one Woods played beautifully controlled<br \/>\ngolf to birdie the first, fourth, sixth and seventh holes,<br \/>\ngetting his bid for a 15th major championship, and first for<br \/>\nfour years, off to a flawless start.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The American wasted birdie opportunities before twice<br \/>\nfinding treacherous rough at the 15th hole to drop his only shot<br \/>\nof the day but he was happy with a putting performance that<br \/>\nrevived memories of him at his pomp.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Australian Scott blazes way round Lytham * Woods tucks in behind on three-under 67 * Johnson, Lawrie, McIlroy, Watson, Els, McDowell start well * Westwood and Mickelson off the pace with 73s By Ed Osmond LYTHAM ST ANNES, England, July 19 (Reuters) &#8211; Australian Adam Scott set the pace with a course record-equalling 64 [&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-12584","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\/12584","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=12584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}