{"id":13174,"date":"2012-08-05T02:05:54","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T00:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/update-1-golf-furyk-holds-slim-lead-at-firestone\/"},"modified":"2012-08-05T02:05:54","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T00:05:54","slug":"update-1-golf-furyk-holds-slim-lead-at-firestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-golf-furyk-holds-slim-lead-at-firestone\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Golf-Furyk holds slim lead at Firestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Furyk cards an even 70 to lead by one shot<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Oosthuizen alone in second after firing a 68<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Woods 11 shots off the pace<\/p>\n<p> (Adds 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 4 (Reuters) &#8211; American Jim Furyk, seeking<br \/>\nhis first PGA Tour victory in two years, survived a testing back<br \/>\nnine with several ice-cool par saves to cling on to the lead in<br \/>\nSaturday&#8217;s third round of the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Two shots ahead overnight, Furyk briefly led by five before<br \/>\nending a muggy and increasingly breezy day at the fast-running<br \/>\nFirestone Country Club one stroke clear of the chasing pack.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The veteran American carded a level-par 70 on the<br \/>\nchallenging South Course where several greens were not receptive<br \/>\nto approach shots to finish at 11-under 199, one ahead of South<br \/>\nAfrican Louis Oosthuizen, who fired a three-birdie 68.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>American Keegan Bradley, who will defend his PGA<br \/>\nChampionship title at Kiawah Island in South Carolina next week,<br \/>\nwas a further three strokes back at seven under after carding a<br \/>\n67.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Tiger Woods, in pursuit of a record eighth Bridgestone<br \/>\nInvitational crown, rebounded from two days of putting woes at<br \/>\nFirestone to shoot a 68 for a level-par total of 210, a distant<br \/>\n11 shots off the pace.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Furyk cards an even 70 to lead by one shot * Oosthuizen alone in second after firing a 68 * Woods 11 shots off the pace (Adds quotes, detail) By Mark Lamport-Stokes AKRON, Ohio, Aug 4 (Reuters) &#8211; American Jim Furyk, seeking his first PGA Tour victory in two years, survived a testing back [&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-13174","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\/13174","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=13174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}