{"id":12660,"date":"2012-07-23T01:17:23","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T23:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/statbox-golf-british-open-champion-ernie-els\/"},"modified":"2012-07-23T01:17:23","modified_gmt":"2012-07-22T23:17:23","slug":"statbox-golf-british-open-champion-ernie-els","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/statbox-golf-british-open-champion-ernie-els\/","title":{"rendered":"STATBOX-Golf-British Open champion Ernie Els"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LYTHAM ST ANNES, England, July 22<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Facts and<br \/>\nfigures after South African Ernie Els, 42, won the British Open<br \/>\non Sunday:<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Rises from 40th to 15th in world rankings<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Fourth major championship win in 79th appearance<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Follows victories in 2002 British Open, 1997 U.S. Open and<br \/>\n1994 U.S. Open<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Second British Open win in 22nd appearance in event<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Second consecutive top-10 finish in a major following his<br \/>\ntie for ninth at last month&#8217;s U.S. Open<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Gap of 10 years between wins is second longest in British<br \/>\nOpen after Henry Cotton (1937 and 1948)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* His 13th top-10 finish in British Open<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Aged 42 years and 279 days, he is second successive<br \/>\n42-year-old to win British Open after Darren Clarke who was 42<br \/>\nyears and 337 days when he won at Sandwich 12 months ago<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LYTHAM ST ANNES, England, July 22 (Reuters) &#8211; Facts and figures after South African Ernie Els, 42, won the British Open on Sunday: * Rises from 40th to 15th in world rankings * Fourth major championship win in 79th appearance * Follows victories in 2002 British Open, 1997 U.S. Open and 1994 U.S. Open * [&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-12660","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\/12660","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=12660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}