{"id":15502,"date":"2012-10-12T05:46:56","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T03:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/update-2-golf-rose-beats-woods-to-set-up-final-with-red-hot-westwood\/"},"modified":"2012-10-12T05:46:56","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T03:46:56","slug":"update-2-golf-rose-beats-woods-to-set-up-final-with-red-hot-westwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-2-golf-rose-beats-woods-to-set-up-final-with-red-hot-westwood\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2-Golf-Rose beats Woods to set up final with red-hot Westwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Wonder shot is turning point for Rose<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Westwood produces course record 61   (Adds quotes, detail)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">BELEK, Turkey<\/span> Oct 11 (Reuters) &#8211; Justin Rose beat 14-times major champion Tiger Woods in the semi-finals on Thursday to set up a title showdown with fellow Englishman Lee Westwood at the World Golf Final exhibition event.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Rose (69) carded two birdies and an eagle in the last six holes to defeat world number two Woods, who eliminated top-ranked Rory McIlroy earlier in the day, by one shot.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Westwood blitzed his way past 2011 U.S. Masters champion Charl Schwartzel by six strokes, the world number four firing two eagles and eight birdies in a course record, 10-under 61.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Rose trailed Woods, who beat McIlroy by six strokes in their final Group One encounter, until he holed a 110-yard sand wedge for an eagle two at the 14th.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The American smiled while Rose pulled his cap over his face after his ball took two bounces and disappeared into the hole.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When Justin birdied 13 and holed out at 14 it was the turning point in the match,&#8221; Woods told reporters. &#8220;I was two up at the time and all of a sudden one down with four to play.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But in this strokeplay format it&#8217;s not over until it&#8217;s done. There can be some big swings out there and it&#8217;s certainly frustrating when I&#8217;ve lost two matches by a shot this week.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Wonder shot is turning point for Rose * Westwood produces course record 61 (Adds quotes, detail) BELEK, Turkey Oct 11 (Reuters) &#8211; Justin Rose beat 14-times major champion Tiger Woods in the semi-finals on Thursday to set up a title showdown with fellow Englishman Lee Westwood at the World Golf Final exhibition event. Rose [&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-15502","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\/15502","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=15502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}