{"id":21143,"date":"2013-07-15T23:54:20","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T21:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/old-timers-els-and-michelson-dream-about-open\/"},"modified":"2013-07-15T23:54:20","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T21:54:20","slug":"old-timers-els-and-michelson-dream-about-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/old-timers-els-and-michelson-dream-about-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Old-timers Els and Michelson dream about Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=9064\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9064\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9064\" alt=\"Ernie Els. Photo: Express\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/0fe8d_ls-414485.jpg\" width=\"394\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ernie Els. Photo: Express<\/p>\n<p>The Open Championship, or British Open, tees off at Muirfield on Thursday and MySport24 had a look at why defending champion Ernie Els <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/british-open-champ-ernie-nearly-turns-his-back-on-golf\/\" target=\"_blank\">almost quit golf<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Mickelson beat South African Branden Grace in a playoff at the Scottish Open over the weekend, but it is the British Open which <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/british-open-is-ultimate-challenge-for-mickelson\/\" target=\"_blank\">he is really after<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>South African golfer Louis Oosthuizen, who will attempt to win a second British Open, received some <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/junior-golfers-give-british-open-advice-to-oosthuizen\/\" target=\"_blank\">advice from junior golfers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Marc Marquez went to the top of the MotoGP standings after winning the German MotoGP on Saturday, but says <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/motogp-leader-marquez-is-sorry-his-rivals-missed-out\/\" target=\"_blank\">it felt different<\/a> without his title rivals Pedrosa and Lorenzo on the track.<\/p>\n<p>The Southern Kings\u2019 Super Rugby campaign ended in tears against the Sharks in Durban and MySport24 had a look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/southern-kings-debut-ends-in-disappointment\/\" target=\"_blank\">reasons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>High five,<br \/>\nEd<\/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:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/british-open-is-ultimate-challenge-for-mickelson\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/0fe8d_185190496_80_80.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/british-open-is-ultimate-challenge-for-mickelson\/\" target=\"_blank\">British Open is ultimate challenge for Mickelson<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/british-open-champ-ernie-nearly-turns-his-back-on-golf\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/0fe8d_185162660_80_80.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/british-open-champ-ernie-nearly-turns-his-back-on-golf\/\" target=\"_blank\">British Open champ Els nearly walks away from golf<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/ten-things-to-know-about-the-british-open\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/0fe8d_184774466_80_80.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/ten-things-to-know-about-the-british-open\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ten things to know about the 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\/0fe8d_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ernie Els. Photo: Express The Open Championship, or British Open, tees off at Muirfield on Thursday and MySport24 had a look at why defending champion Ernie Els almost quit golf. Phil Mickelson beat South African Branden Grace in a playoff at the Scottish Open over the weekend, but it is the British Open which he [&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-21143","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\/21143","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=21143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}