{"id":13429,"date":"2012-08-13T02:29:43","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T00:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/update-4-golf-mcilroy-wins-pga-championship-by-eight-shots\/"},"modified":"2012-08-13T02:29:43","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T00:29:43","slug":"update-4-golf-mcilroy-wins-pga-championship-by-eight-shots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-4-golf-mcilroy-wins-pga-championship-by-eight-shots\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 4-Golf-McIlroy wins PGA Championship by eight shots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* McIlroy regains world number one ranking with win<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Repels early Poulter charge to win second major crown<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Woods finishes 11 off the pace after a 72<\/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>KIAWAH ISLAND, South Carolina, Aug 12 (Reuters) &#8211; Northern<br \/>\nIreland&#8217;s Rory McIlroy repelled an early onslaught by Britain&#8217;s<br \/>\nIan Poulter before cruising to his second major title by a<br \/>\nrecord eight shots at the PGA Championship on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old McIlroy, who started the final round with a<br \/>\nthree-shot lead, needed only 23 putts as he carded a flawless<br \/>\nsix-under-par 66 that gave him a 13-under total of 275 in the<br \/>\nyear&#8217;s last major.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The world number three sank a 20-foot putt from just off the<br \/>\ngreen to birdie the par-four 18th in glorious late afternoon<br \/>\nsunshine at Kiawah Island Golf Resort, then lifted his putter<br \/>\nskywards in celebration.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think I have let it sink in yet but it was a great<br \/>\nround of golf,&#8221; the mop-haired Northern Irishman said after<br \/>\nbeing presented with the Wanamaker Trophy. &#8220;I am speechless.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been an incredible week. I had a good feeling about it<br \/>\nat the start and I never imagined to do this.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* McIlroy regains world number one ranking with win * Repels early Poulter charge to win second major crown * Woods finishes 11 off the pace after a 72 (Adds quotes, detail) By Mark Lamport-Stokes KIAWAH ISLAND, South Carolina, Aug 12 (Reuters) &#8211; Northern Ireland&#8217;s Rory McIlroy repelled an early onslaught by Britain&#8217;s Ian Poulter [&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-13429","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\/13429","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=13429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}