{"id":13411,"date":"2012-08-11T14:23:11","date_gmt":"2012-08-11T12:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/update-3-golf-tiger-lurks-in-lead-trio-at-kiawah\/"},"modified":"2012-08-11T14:23:11","modified_gmt":"2012-08-11T12:23:11","slug":"update-3-golf-tiger-lurks-in-lead-trio-at-kiawah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-3-golf-tiger-lurks-in-lead-trio-at-kiawah\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 3-Golf-Tiger lurks in lead trio at Kiawah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Three men share lead on four under<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Woods masters windy conditions<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Singh rolls back years to grind out a 69<\/p>\n<p> (Updates at end of round)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Simon Evans<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>KIAWAH ISLAND, South Carolina, Aug 10 (Reuters) &#8211; Battling<br \/>\nstrong winds that buffeted the Ocean Course, Tiger Woods pushed<br \/>\nhimself into contention at the PGA Championship to end Friday&#8217;s<br \/>\nsecond round tied for the lead with Vijay Singh and Swede Carl<br \/>\nPettersson.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A three-putt bogey on the 18th hole, where he missed a short<br \/>\nputt for par, was a frustrating conclusion for Woods but his<br \/>\none-under-par 71 for a four-under total of 140 was a fine score<br \/>\nin extremely challenging conditions where the average was over<br \/>\nsix strokes over par.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m very pleased to be able to shoot under par today. That<br \/>\nwas the goal, anything par or better today was going to be a<br \/>\ngreat score, and I was able to accomplish that,&#8221; said Woods.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>England&#8217;s Ian Poulter, who shot a 71, was one stroke back<br \/>\nwhile Northern Ireland&#8217;s Rory McIlroy (75) and Welshman Jamie<br \/>\nDonaldson (73) were both at two under.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Four-times champion Woods made three birdies and two bogeys<br \/>\nwhile hitting 10 of 14 fairways but it was a sign of how tough<br \/>\napproach shots were in the swirling wind that he hit only half<br \/>\nof the greens in regulation.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Three men share lead on four under * Woods masters windy conditions * Singh rolls back years to grind out a 69 (Updates at end of round) By Simon Evans KIAWAH ISLAND, South Carolina, Aug 10 (Reuters) &#8211; Battling strong winds that buffeted the Ocean Course, Tiger Woods pushed himself into contention at the [&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-13411","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\/13411","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=13411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}