{"id":21007,"date":"2013-07-09T11:35:30","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T09:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/golfer-daly-backs-out-of-british-open\/"},"modified":"2013-07-09T11:35:30","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T09:35:30","slug":"golfer-daly-backs-out-of-british-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/golfer-daly-backs-out-of-british-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Golfer Daly backs out of British Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=8267\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8267\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8267\" alt=\"John Daly. Photo: Steve Helber \/ AP\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/7bd63_070413-GOLF-GREENBRIAR-CLASSIC-JOHN-DALY-DC-IA_2013070417535459_0_0.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Daly. Photo: Steve Helber \/ AP<\/p>\n<p>John Daly has backed out of the <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/time-is-running-out-for-mcilroy\/\" target=\"_blank\">British Open<\/a> due to him needing elbow surgery that will end his <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/tiger-pounces-on-number-one-ranking\/\" target=\"_blank\">PGA Tour<\/a> season.<\/p>\n<p>Daly says the surgery on his right elbow is scheduled for Thursday and that\u00a0doctors have told him he could start rehabilitation in early September and could return to golf in the late fall.<\/p>\n<p>Daly says he has been playing with a torn tendon since May and he\u00a0hit a root chipping out of the rough on the 12th hole at The Greenbrier Classic on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The surgery means Daly will miss the only two majors for which he is eligible \u2014 the British Open and the PGA Championship because he is a past champion. \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today<\/a><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.3news.co.nz\/John-Daly-withdraws-from-British-Open-2013-with-elbow-injury\/tabid\/415\/articleID\/304339\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/7bd63_183462667_80_80.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.3news.co.nz\/John-Daly-withdraws-from-British-Open-2013-with-elbow-injury\/tabid\/415\/articleID\/304339\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">John Daly withdraws from British Open 2013 with elbow injury<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/m.golf.com\/528202\/john-daly-withdraws-from-british-open-will-have-season-ending-elbow-surgery\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/7bd63_183352532_80_80.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/m.golf.com\/528202\/john-daly-withdraws-from-british-open-will-have-season-ending-elbow-surgery\/\" target=\"_blank\">John Daly withdraws from British Open, will have season-ending elbow surgery<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/golf\/2013\/7\/8\/4504796\/john-daly-withdraw-british-open-2013-muirfield\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/7bd63_183362479_80_80.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/golf\/2013\/7\/8\/4504796\/john-daly-withdraw-british-open-2013-muirfield\" target=\"_blank\">John Daly withdraws from 2013 British Open with elbow injury<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/r.zemanta.com\/?u=http%3A\/\/www.cbssports.com\/golf\/blog\/eye-on-golf\/22684034\/john-daly-withdraws-from-british-opena=183308761rid=5283e636-e4e7-4205-b61b-8fdf5d57b155e=11a10f1a8af6379cb23be85f808a9a32\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/afbb1_183308761_80_80.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/r.zemanta.com\/?u=http%3A\/\/www.cbssports.com\/golf\/blog\/eye-on-golf\/22684034\/john-daly-withdraws-from-british-opena=183308761rid=5283e636-e4e7-4205-b61b-8fdf5d57b155e=11a10f1a8af6379cb23be85f808a9a32\" target=\"_blank\">Onetime champ Daly (elbow) out of British Open<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/afbb1_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Daly. Photo: Steve Helber \/ AP John Daly has backed out of the British Open due to him needing elbow surgery that will end his PGA Tour season. Daly says the surgery on his right elbow is scheduled for Thursday and that\u00a0doctors have told him he could start rehabilitation in early September and could [&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-21007","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\/21007","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=21007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}