{"id":19183,"date":"2013-04-11T16:58:14","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T14:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/major-attention-on-tiger-woods-at-masters\/"},"modified":"2013-04-11T16:58:14","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T14:58:14","slug":"major-attention-on-tiger-woods-at-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/major-attention-on-tiger-woods-at-masters\/","title":{"rendered":"Major attention on Tiger Woods at Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the first major of the year tees off on Thursday, the centre of attention will be a player who has gone five years without winning a premier event.<\/p>\n<p>Tiger Woods has built his golf game back to its former dominant level, has regained the No 1 ranking in the world and has captured five PGA Tour titles over the last two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>He has not won a major tournament, however, since he captured the 2008 US Open in a dramatic playoff with Rocco Mediate while playing on a damaged leg.<\/p>\n<p>That was the 14th of Woods\u2019 major championship wins, leaving him four away from equaling the record total achieved by Jack Nicklaus.<\/p>\n<p>It seemed then that Woods would easily surpass Nicklaus in the record book, but injuries as well as very public personal problems combined to make such an achievement less than certain.<\/p>\n<p>With Woods now appearing as ready as ever to renew his pursuit of the Nicklaus mark, the Masters will get under way Thursday at the Augusta National Golf Club.<\/p>\n<p>Forecasters called for 30 percent of showers and thunderstorms during the afternoon Thursday and again Friday. The weather is expected to be ideal on the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>There will be a field of 93 players on hand, including 19 former winners, 33 major championship titleholders, six amateurs and 17 competitors who have never played in the Masters before. \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Sports_News\/2013\/04\/10\/Woods-in-spotlight-on-Masters-eve\/UPI-94741365639408\/?spt=htsor=6\" target=\"_blank\">UPI<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the first major of the year tees off on Thursday, the centre of attention will be a player who has gone five years without winning a premier event. Tiger Woods has built his golf game back to its former dominant level, has regained the No 1 ranking in the world and has captured five [&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-19183","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\/19183","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=19183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}