{"id":13639,"date":"2012-08-18T14:57:14","date_gmt":"2012-08-18T12:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/golf-boring-play-takes-walker-top-at-wyndham-simpson-lurks\/"},"modified":"2012-08-18T14:57:14","modified_gmt":"2012-08-18T12:57:14","slug":"golf-boring-play-takes-walker-top-at-wyndham-simpson-lurks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/golf-boring-play-takes-walker-top-at-wyndham-simpson-lurks\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf-Boring play takes Walker top at Wyndham, Simpson lurks"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Aug 17 (Reuters) – American Jimmy Walker played some boring
\ngolf to grab a one-shot lead over compatriot and defending
\nchampion Webb Simpson at the Wyndham Championship following
\nFriday’s weather-affected second round.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Walker fired a flawless eight-under 62 at the Sedgefield
\nCountry Club in North Carolina, to move to 12-under for the
\ntournament ahead of U.S. Open champion Simpson (63), who was
\nalso bogey free in the defence of his inaugural PGA Tour win.<\/p>\n

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“I hit a lot of 5-woods off tees, kind of boring. I’m
\nplaying with J.B. (Holmes) and he’s bombing the driver
\neverywhere,” Walker, looking for his first win on tour, told
\nreporters.<\/p>\n

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“I’m just kind of bunting the 5-wood around and hitting good
\napproach shots, that kind of stuff. It was pretty boring looking
\ngolf.<\/p>\n

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Three-times tour winner Simpson was happy with his
\nperformance as he was cheered on loudly at his local event.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

“I felt good kind of the whole game today,” the 27-year-old
\ntold reporters.<\/p>\n

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“Just one of those days where you really appreciate what you
\ndo just because its fun, go out there and play well, hit the
\nball where you’re looking and start your putts on line and you
\ncan do that for a full day, it’s always fun.<\/p>\n

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“I live an hour and a half away, I grew up an hour and a
\nhalf way. Went to school 20 minutes from here. Good feeling when
\nyou hear people calling your name and rooting for you,” the
\nAmerican added.<\/p>\n

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While the field is jostling for playoff seeds or positions
\nin the top 125 for the FedEx Cup, Spain’s Sergio Garcia is also
\nfighting for a place in the European Ryder Cup team having been
\nbumped from the automatic qualification zone by Briton Ian
\nPoulter last week as the selection deadline looms.
\n\u00a0 Continued…<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Aug 17 (Reuters) – American Jimmy Walker played some boring golf to grab a one-shot lead over compatriot and defending champion Webb Simpson at the Wyndham Championship following Friday’s weather-affected second round. Walker fired a flawless eight-under 62 at the Sedgefield Country Club in North Carolina, to move to 12-under for the tournament ahead of […]<\/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-13639","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\/13639","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=13639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}