{"id":12616,"date":"2012-07-21T01:08:13","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T23:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/golf-mickelson-and-clarke-miss-cut-at-lytham\/"},"modified":"2012-07-21T01:08:13","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T23:08:13","slug":"golf-mickelson-and-clarke-miss-cut-at-lytham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/golf-mickelson-and-clarke-miss-cut-at-lytham\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf-Mickelson and Clarke miss cut at Lytham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Ed Osmond<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LYTHAM ST ANNES, England, July 20<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Defending<br \/>\nchampion Darren Clarke and former world number two Phil<br \/>\nMickelson were among a host of high-profile players to miss the<br \/>\nBritish Open cut made at three over par on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Clarke shot a respectable one-over 71 to finish on<br \/>\nseven-over 147 while Mickelson, a four-times major champion,<br \/>\nslumped to a dismal 78 for 151 to continue his poor record in<br \/>\nthe tournament.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Six former Open champions from the United States failed to<br \/>\nmake the weekend &#8212; Tom Lehman, Justin Leonard, Todd Hamilton,<br \/>\nBen Curtis, Stewart Cink and David Duval who won the last one<br \/>\nheld at Lytham in 2001.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>They were joined on the way home by former world number one<br \/>\nMartin Kaymer, double major winner Angel Cabrera, 1985 Open<br \/>\nchampion Sandy Lyle and United States Ryder Cup captain Davis<br \/>\nLove III.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Former major champions Yang Yong-eun of South Korea, South<br \/>\nAfricans Charl Schwartzel and Trevor Immelman and American Lucas<br \/>\nGlover also missed out.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>World number three Lee Westwood flirted with danger before<br \/>\nscraping through on three-over 143 with a level-par round of 70<br \/>\nto keep alive his faint hopes of a first major title.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Second-ranked Rory McIlroy and twice Open champion Padraig<br \/>\nHarrington made it through on 142.<\/p>\n<p> (Editing by Tony Jimenez)<\/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 Ed Osmond LYTHAM ST ANNES, England, July 20 (Reuters) &#8211; Defending champion Darren Clarke and former world number two Phil Mickelson were among a host of high-profile players to miss the British Open cut made at three over par on Friday. Clarke shot a respectable one-over 71 to finish on seven-over 147 while Mickelson, [&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-12616","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\/12616","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=12616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}