{"id":15431,"date":"2012-10-10T05:42:55","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T03:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/update-1-golf-not-much-turkish-delight-for-mcilroy-and-woods\/"},"modified":"2012-10-10T05:42:55","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T03:42:55","slug":"update-1-golf-not-much-turkish-delight-for-mcilroy-and-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-golf-not-much-turkish-delight-for-mcilroy-and-woods\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Golf-Not much Turkish delight for McIlroy and Woods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Kuchar too good for McIlroy<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Woods beaten by Schwartzel   (Adds details, quotes)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">BELEK, Turkey<\/span> Oct 9 (Reuters) &#8211; World number one Rory McIlroy and second-ranked Tiger Woods slumped to opening-day defeats at the inaugural World Golf Final on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Northern Irishman McIlroy was beaten by American Matt Kuchar in the invitational eight-man matchplay event in Turkey while Group One rival Woods lost to 2011 U.S. Masters champion Charl Schwartzel of South Africa.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In Group Two, English pair Lee Westwood (72) and Justin Rose (71) recorded respective victories over U.S. Open champion Webb Simpson (73) and fellow American Hunter Mahan (75).<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The two top in each section go through to the semi-finals of the $5.3 million tournament.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>McIlroy had a nightmare late spell at the Antalya Golf Club, playing the last four holes in seven-over-par to finish with a 76 against Kuchar&#8217;s one-under 70.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hit my drive into the trees on 15 and lost a bit of confidence,&#8221; the U.S. PGA champion told reporters.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I now need to win both my matches tomorrow to advance. I just struggled for a bit of motivation out there today.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Kuchar too good for McIlroy * Woods beaten by Schwartzel (Adds details, quotes) BELEK, Turkey Oct 9 (Reuters) &#8211; World number one Rory McIlroy and second-ranked Tiger Woods slumped to opening-day defeats at the inaugural World Golf Final on Tuesday. Northern Irishman McIlroy was beaten by American Matt Kuchar in the invitational eight-man matchplay [&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-15431","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\/15431","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=15431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}