{"id":12617,"date":"2012-07-21T01:08:15","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T23:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/wrapup-3-golf-snedeker-ties-faldo-record-to-take-charge\/"},"modified":"2012-07-21T01:08:15","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T23:08:15","slug":"wrapup-3-golf-snedeker-ties-faldo-record-to-take-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wrapup-3-golf-snedeker-ties-faldo-record-to-take-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"WRAPUP 3-Golf-Snedeker ties Faldo record to take charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* American equals Faldo&#8217;s record 36-hole total<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Scott in second place and Woods third<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Mickelson misses cut on 11 over par<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Tony Jimenez<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>LYTHAM ST ANNES, England, July 20 (Reuters) &#8211; American<br \/>\nBrandt Snedeker, who missed the cut in his three previous<br \/>\nBritish Opens, made amends in thrilling fashion by seizing the<br \/>\nlead with a six-under-par 64 in Friday&#8217;s second round.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>While the majority of the field seemed stuck in reverse gear<br \/>\non a calm day at Royal Lytham  St Annes, the 31-year-old<br \/>\naccelerated clear with a record-equalling 36-hole total of<br \/>\n10-under 130.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Overnight leader Adam Scott birdied the 18th to add a 67 to<br \/>\nhis opening 64 and former world number one Tiger Woods (67)<br \/>\nsprinkled his own special brand of stardust by holing out from a<br \/>\ngreenside bunker at the last to move into third place on 134.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Young Dane Thorbjorn Olesen (66) was fourth on 135, one<br \/>\nahead of a cluster of players including 1999 champion Paul<br \/>\nLawrie (71) and 2010 U.S. Open winner Graeme McDowell (69).<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My mantra all week has been to get the ball on the greens<br \/>\nas fast as possible,&#8221; Snedeker told reporters.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* American equals Faldo&#8217;s record 36-hole total * Scott in second place and Woods third * Mickelson misses cut on 11 over par By Tony Jimenez LYTHAM ST ANNES, England, July 20 (Reuters) &#8211; American Brandt Snedeker, who missed the cut in his three previous British Opens, made amends in thrilling fashion by seizing the [&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-12617","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\/12617","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=12617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}