{"id":12653,"date":"2012-07-23T01:17:14","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T23:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/golf-champion-els-inspired-by-south-african-cricketers\/"},"modified":"2012-07-23T01:17:14","modified_gmt":"2012-07-22T23:17:14","slug":"golf-champion-els-inspired-by-south-african-cricketers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/golf-champion-els-inspired-by-south-african-cricketers\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf-Champion Els inspired by South African cricketers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LYTHAM ST ANNES, England, July 22<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; British Open<br \/>\nchampion Ernie Els said he was inspired by watching South<br \/>\nAfrica&#8217;s cricketers turn the screw on England in the first test<br \/>\nbefore going out to win his fourth major title on Sunday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa batsman Hashim Amla made a record 311 not out<br \/>\nto lift his side to 637 for two declared before the bowlers<br \/>\nreduced England to 102 for four to put the touring side on<br \/>\ncourse for victory at the Oval in London on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, I was watching a bit,&#8221; Els told reporters. &#8220;I watched<br \/>\na bit last night and then obviously this morning a little bit.<br \/>\nIt seems like the guys are fresh and ready to play and hopefully<br \/>\nthey&#8217;ll have a good series.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa can knock England off the top of the world test<br \/>\nrankings if they win the three-match series.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s still a long way to go, two more test matches, so<br \/>\nthere&#8217;s a good start,&#8221; said Els after shooting a final-round 68<br \/>\nat Lytham to snatch the Open title in dramatic fashion from<br \/>\nAustralian Adam Scott who bogeyed the last four holes.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Ed Osmond, editing by John Mehaffey)<\/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>LYTHAM ST ANNES, England, July 22 (Reuters) &#8211; British Open champion Ernie Els said he was inspired by watching South Africa&#8217;s cricketers turn the screw on England in the first test before going out to win his fourth major title on Sunday. South Africa batsman Hashim Amla made a record 311 not out to lift [&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-12653","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\/12653","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=12653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}