{"id":12657,"date":"2012-07-23T01:17:19","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T23:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/wrapup-2-golf-els-wins-british-open-after-stunning-scott-collapse\/"},"modified":"2012-07-23T01:17:19","modified_gmt":"2012-07-22T23:17:19","slug":"wrapup-2-golf-els-wins-british-open-after-stunning-scott-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wrapup-2-golf-els-wins-british-open-after-stunning-scott-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"WRAPUP 2-Golf-Els wins British Open after stunning Scott collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Scott throws away four-shot lead<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Last-hole birdie earns Els title<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Woods slumps after triple bogey<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Tony Jimenez<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>LYTHAM ST ANNES, England, July 22 (Reuters) &#8211; South African<br \/>\nErnie Els won the British Open by one stroke from Adam Scott on<br \/>\nSunday after the Australian suffered an extraordinary late<br \/>\ncollapse on an incident-packed final day.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>World number 13 Scott, chasing his first major championship,<br \/>\nstarted the last round with a four-shot lead and seemed to be<br \/>\ncruising to victory as he maintained that cushion with six holes<br \/>\nto play.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>But a late attack of the jitters caused him to drop strokes<br \/>\nat each of the last four holes, allowing Els to slip in through<br \/>\nthe back door and lift the Claret Jug with a two-under-par 68<br \/>\nand a seven-under total of 273.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is amazing. I&#8217;m still numb. It still hasn&#8217;t sunk in<br \/>\nyet,&#8221; Els told reporters after adding to his previous major<br \/>\nvictories in the 1994 and 1997 U.S. Opens and 2002 British Open.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel for Adam, he&#8217;s a good friend of mine. I was just<br \/>\nhoping at best to get into a playoff when I was on 17, then I<br \/>\nbirdied the 18th and heard what happened to Adam,&#8221; added Els<br \/>\nwhose victory extended to 16 the streak of different major<br \/>\nwinners.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Scott throws away four-shot lead * Last-hole birdie earns Els title * Woods slumps after triple bogey By Tony Jimenez LYTHAM ST ANNES, England, July 22 (Reuters) &#8211; South African Ernie Els won the British Open by one stroke from Adam Scott on Sunday after the Australian suffered an extraordinary late collapse on an [&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-12657","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\/12657","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=12657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}