{"id":13104,"date":"2012-08-03T01:56:17","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T23:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/update-2-golf-furyk-in-charge-at-firestone-woods-seven-back\/"},"modified":"2012-08-03T01:56:17","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T23:56:17","slug":"update-2-golf-furyk-in-charge-at-firestone-woods-seven-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-2-golf-furyk-in-charge-at-firestone-woods-seven-back\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2-Golf-Furyk in charge at Firestone, Woods seven back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Furyk fires a superb 63 to lead by two shots<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* World number one Donald opens with a 66<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Woods trails by seven after shooting 70<\/p>\n<p> (Adds further quotes, detail)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Mark Lamport-Stokes<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>AKRON, Ohio, Aug 2 (Reuters) &#8211; Experienced American Jim<br \/>\nFuryk outshone the biggest names in the game as he took control<br \/>\nof the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational with a dazzling<br \/>\nseven-under-par 63 in Thursday&#8217;s opening round.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>On a firm and fast-running layout at Firestone Country Club,<br \/>\nFuryk piled up seven birdies, an eagle at the par-five second<br \/>\nand two bogeys to end a sun-splashed day two ahead of Britain&#8217;s<br \/>\nLee Slattery.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>World number one Luke Donald was a further stroke back on<br \/>\n66, level with fellow Englishman Simon Dyson, Americans Ben<br \/>\nCrane and Masters champion Bubba Watson, Australia&#8217;s John Senden<br \/>\nand Spaniard Rafael Cabrera Bello.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Second-ranked Tiger Woods, bidding for a record eighth<br \/>\nBridgestone Invitational title, made a solid start but bogeyed<br \/>\nthree of his last six holes for a 70 to finish seven shots off<br \/>\nthe pace.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Furyk, who clinched the most recent of his 16 PGA Tour<br \/>\nvictories at the 2010 Tour Championship, has always relished<br \/>\nplaying at Firestone and he made the most of the fast-running<br \/>\nconditions on Thursday when there was hardly a breath of wind.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Furyk fires a superb 63 to lead by two shots * World number one Donald opens with a 66 * Woods trails by seven after shooting 70 (Adds further quotes, detail) By Mark Lamport-Stokes AKRON, Ohio, Aug 2 (Reuters) &#8211; Experienced American Jim Furyk outshone the biggest names in the game as he took [&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-13104","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\/13104","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=13104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}