{"id":13147,"date":"2012-08-04T01:57:42","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T23:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/update-1-golf-furyk-stays-in-charge-woods-13-off-the-pace\/"},"modified":"2012-08-04T01:57:42","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T23:57:42","slug":"update-1-golf-furyk-stays-in-charge-woods-13-off-the-pace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-golf-furyk-stays-in-charge-woods-13-off-the-pace\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Golf-Furyk stays in charge, Woods 13 off the pace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Furyk preserves a two-shot lead at Firestone<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Woods cards a 72 after struggling on the greens<\/p>\n<p> (Updates at end of round)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Mark Lamport-Stokes<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>AKRON, Ohio, Aug 3 (Reuters) &#8211; Rock-steady Jim Furyk<br \/>\nmaintained both momentum and a two-shot lead in Friday&#8217;s second<br \/>\nround of the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational while seven-times<br \/>\nchampion Tiger Woods again struggled with his putting.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Furyk, who opened with a dazzling seven-under-par 63 in the<br \/>\nelite World Golf Championships (WGC) event, followed up with a<br \/>\nfive-birdie 66 on another steamy day at Firestone Country Club.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The veteran American scrambled superbly to cover his back<br \/>\nnine in a flawless two-under 33, posting an 11-under total of<br \/>\n129 to finish two strokes in front of Spaniard Rafael Cabrera<br \/>\nBello, who fired a 65.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South African Louis Oosthuizen, the 2010 British Open<br \/>\nchampion, was at eight under, also after a 65, with laid-back<br \/>\nAmerican Jason Dufner a further stroke back after returning a<br \/>\n66.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Woods, who had totalled 33 putts on the slick Firestone<br \/>\ngreens in the opening round, mixed four bogeys with two birdies<br \/>\nfor a 72 to end the day a distant 13 strokes off the 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 season-ending Tour Championship, was<br \/>\ndelighted to retain control of the tournament after starting the<br \/>\nday two ahead of the chasing pack.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Furyk preserves a two-shot lead at Firestone * Woods cards a 72 after struggling on the greens (Updates at end of round) By Mark Lamport-Stokes AKRON, Ohio, Aug 3 (Reuters) &#8211; Rock-steady Jim Furyk maintained both momentum and a two-shot lead in Friday&#8217;s second round of the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational while seven-times champion Tiger Woods [&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-13147","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\/13147","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=13147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}