{"id":21035,"date":"2013-07-10T11:37:04","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T09:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/woods-continues-to-be-british-open-favourite\/"},"modified":"2013-07-10T11:37:04","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T09:37:04","slug":"woods-continues-to-be-british-open-favourite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/woods-continues-to-be-british-open-favourite\/","title":{"rendered":"Woods continues to be British Open favourite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=8420\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8420\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8420 \" alt=\"Tiger Woods is the favorite at Muirfield. Photo: USATSI\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/71869_mofTauQ-600x399.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"279\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tiger Woods is the favorite at Muirfield. Photo: USATSI<\/p>\n<p>Although <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/open-championship-increases-prize-pot\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tiger Woods<\/a> hasn\u2019t won a major in more than five years, he continues to be the heavy favourite for the <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/golfer-daly-backs-out-of-british-open\/\" target=\"_blank\">British Open<\/a> just 10 days away from competition.<\/p>\n<p>Woods was favoured even more at the US Open (9-2 to <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/time-is-running-out-for-mcilroy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rory McIlroy\u2019s<\/a> 20-1) and less so at Augusta (3-1 to Rory McIlroy\u2019s 12-1).<\/p>\n<p>The interesting part about the British Open is that this is the first time all year McIlroy hasn\u2019t been the clear cut No. 2 favourite heading into a major.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a reflection of his play, obviously, but it\u2019s also a reflection of the fact that nobody was betting on him. 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Photo: USATSI Although Tiger Woods hasn\u2019t won a major in more than five years, he continues to be the heavy favourite for the British Open just 10 days away from competition. Woods was favoured even more at the US Open (9-2 to Rory McIlroy\u2019s 20-1) and less so [&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-21035","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\/21035","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=21035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}