{"id":15251,"date":"2012-10-05T05:31:51","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T03:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/update-2-golf-amazing-grace-equals-european-tour-record-of-60\/"},"modified":"2012-10-05T05:31:51","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T03:31:51","slug":"update-2-golf-amazing-grace-equals-european-tour-record-of-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-2-golf-amazing-grace-equals-european-tour-record-of-60\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2-Golf-Amazing Grace equals European Tour record of 60"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* South African goes low at Kingsbarns<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Dubuisson also breaks St Andrews record   (Adds detail)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">ST ANDREWS, Scotland<\/span> Oct 4 (Reuters) &#8211; South African Branden Grace equalled the European Tour record when he shot a blistering 12-under-par 60 to lead after the first round of the Dunhill Links Championship on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Grace, a triple winner on the tour in 2012, clipped two strokes off Lee Westwood&#8217;s previous Kingsbarns record of 62 set in 2003 after finishing with five straight birdies.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Frenchman Victor Dubuisson was two shots off the lead on 62 after breaking the course record at St Andrews, one of three layouts being used this week.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dubuisson had threatened to eclipse Grace when he reached 11 under with three holes left but he bogeyed the seventh hole (his 16th) before finishing with a couple of pars.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Grace became the 14th player to shoot a 60 on the European Tour.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It could have been a 59,&#8221; he told reporters. &#8220;It&#8217;s not the easiest course I&#8217;ve ever seen and it is definitely shorter than the others.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I gave myself a lot of chances and made everything I looked at &#8230; I had a lot of 15 footers and some tap-ins and could even have been one or two better.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* South African goes low at Kingsbarns * Dubuisson also breaks St Andrews record (Adds detail) ST ANDREWS, Scotland Oct 4 (Reuters) &#8211; South African Branden Grace equalled the European Tour record when he shot a blistering 12-under-par 60 to lead after the first round of the Dunhill Links Championship on Thursday. Grace, a triple [&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-15251","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\/15251","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=15251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}