{"id":13579,"date":"2012-08-17T02:51:38","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T00:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/golf-flawless-pettersson-grabs-one-shot-lead-at-wyndham\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T02:51:38","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T00:51:38","slug":"golf-flawless-pettersson-grabs-one-shot-lead-at-wyndham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/golf-flawless-pettersson-grabs-one-shot-lead-at-wyndham\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf-Flawless Pettersson grabs one-shot lead at Wyndham"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Aug 16 (Reuters) – Swede Carl Pettersson, riding momentum
\nfrom his good form at the PGA Championship, fired a flawless
\neight-under 62 for a one-shot lead after Thursday’s opening
\nround of the Wyndham Championship in North Carolina.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Pettersson, fresh off a tie for third at Kiawah Island in
\nthe year’s last major, had eight birdies to sit one shot clear
\nof American David Mathis and South African Tim Clark at
\nSedgefield Country Club.<\/p>\n

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“I started off the round good with two birdies in the first
\nthree holes and got me kind of straight back into the score mode
\nfrom last week,” said Pettersson.<\/p>\n

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“I hit it pretty good off the tee and hit my irons good and
\nputted really well. It was a great day for me.”<\/p>\n

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Americans Tom Gillis, Troy Matteson and Scott Stallings were
\ntied in fourth place after shooting matching 64s in the final
\nevent before the FedEx Cup playoffs begin next week.<\/p>\n

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Defending champion Webb Simpson, who captured his first PGA
\ntitle here last year, was among a group of 12 golfers sitting
\nfour shots off the pace.<\/p>\n

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Clark and Pettersson both played college golf for nearby
\nNorth Carolina State and used their local knowledge to full
\neffect at Sedgefield.<\/p>\n

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Pettersson, the 2008 champion of the event, opened on the
\nback nine and rolled in a six foot birdie on the 11th to kick
\nstart his round.<\/p>\n

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He drained 17-foot birdie putts on the 12th and 16th holes
\nbefore converting a shorter eight-foot try on the 18th to turn
\nfour under.
\n\u00a0 Continued…<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Aug 16 (Reuters) – Swede Carl Pettersson, riding momentum from his good form at the PGA Championship, fired a flawless eight-under 62 for a one-shot lead after Thursday’s opening round of the Wyndham Championship in North Carolina. Pettersson, fresh off a tie for third at Kiawah Island in the year’s last major, had eight birdies […]<\/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-13579","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\/13579","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=13579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}