{"id":15259,"date":"2012-10-05T05:32:03","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T03:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/golf-amazing-grace-equals-european-tour-record-of-60\/"},"modified":"2012-10-05T05:32:03","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T03:32:03","slug":"golf-amazing-grace-equals-european-tour-record-of-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/golf-amazing-grace-equals-european-tour-record-of-60\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf-Amazing Grace equals European Tour record of 60"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<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 midway through the first round of the Dunhill Links Championship on Thursday.<span><\/span><\/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>Grace became the 14th player to shoot a 60 on the European Tour.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Northern Ireland&#8217;s Darren Clarke, the 2011 British Open winner, is the only man to card two 60s on the circuit, in 1992 and 1999.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Long-hitting Frenchman Dubuisson broke the previous St Andrews best of 63 held by world number one Rory McIlroy, former top-ranked player Luke Donald and fellow Briton Simon Dyson.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Young Dane Thorbjorn Olesen was also on form at the famous Old Course, returning a 63 in the $5 million Dunhill pro-am tournament.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ryder Cup hero Martin Kaymer (70) played at the more testing Carnoustie layout and missed a par putt at the 18th of a similar length to the one he holed in Chicago last Sunday to win the trophy for Europe.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The putter was not really hot but in general you&#8217;ve got to play solid at the toughest course we play here,&#8221; the 2010 U.S. PGA champion told reporters.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 midway through the first round of the Dunhill Links Championship on Thursday. Grace, a triple winner on the tour in 2012, clipped two strokes off Lee Westwood&#8217;s previous Kingsbarns record of 62 [&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-15259","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\/15259","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=15259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}