{"id":18018,"date":"2013-02-13T13:37:25","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T11:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/fourteen-year-old-ruffels-feathers-at-sa-champs\/"},"modified":"2013-02-13T13:37:25","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T11:37:25","slug":"fourteen-year-old-ruffels-feathers-at-sa-champs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/fourteen-year-old-ruffels-feathers-at-sa-champs\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourteen-year-old Ruffels feathers at SA champs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=1889\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1889\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1889\" alt=\"Photo: Johannesburg amateur Louis Taylor shares the lead with Werner Ferreira and Australia\u2019s Ryan Ruffles after the first round of the South African Stroke Play Championship at the Hyatt Regency Oubaai Golf Resort and Spa on Tuesday. Credit: Piet Uys\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/cb050_SA-Stroke-Play-Champs-LR.jpg\" width=\"261\" height=\"351\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Johannesburg amateur Louis Taylor shares the lead with Werner Ferreira and Australia\u2019s Ryan Ruffles after the first round of the South African Stroke Play Championship at the Hyatt Regency Oubaai Golf Resort and Spa on Tuesday. Credit: Piet Uys<\/p>\n<p>South Africa\u2019s Louis Taylor and Werner Ferreira, and Australian Ryan Ruffels, opened with six-under-par 66s to share the lead in Tuesday\u2019s first round of the South African Stroke Play Championship at the Oubaai Golf Resort and Spa in George.<\/p>\n<p>They are two strokes clear of SA\u2019s Damian Naicker and Joris Etlin of France in a championship that has drawn a strong international contingent on the back of last week\u2019s Ten Nations Cup tournament.<\/p>\n<p>And it was Australia\u2019s victory in that event that has seen the likes of Ruffels enter this week in a confident mood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI suppose we are riding a bit of momentum at the moment,\u201d said the 14-year-old rising star of Australian amateur golf, and the son of former professional tennis player Ray Ruffels.<\/p>\n<p>But Ruffels was more impressed with his playing partner Taylor. The South African seemed headed for the sole lead when he went out in 30, with seven birdies and two pars, and climbed to eight under through 13.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was pretty insane to watch,\u201d said Ruffels. But Taylor dropped three shots in four holes before a birdie at the last.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be eight under and then finish six under is a little disappointing. But if you\u2019d offered me 66 at the start of the round I would\u2019ve taken it,\u201d said the Johannesburg golfer, who opened with four straight birdies. \u201cAfter that I just decided to keep attacking the course.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Johannesburg amateur Louis Taylor shares the lead with Werner Ferreira and Australia\u2019s Ryan Ruffles after the first round of the South African Stroke Play Championship at the Hyatt Regency Oubaai Golf Resort and Spa on Tuesday. Credit: Piet Uys South Africa\u2019s Louis Taylor and Werner Ferreira, and Australian Ryan Ruffels, opened with six-under-par 66s [&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":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-18018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","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\/18018","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=18018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}