{"id":21740,"date":"2013-08-07T00:55:12","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T22:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/woods-vs-mickelson-at-pga-championship\/"},"modified":"2013-08-07T00:55:12","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T22:55:12","slug":"woods-vs-mickelson-at-pga-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/woods-vs-mickelson-at-pga-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Woods vs Mickelson at PGA Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=12566\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12566\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-12566 \" alt=\"Champion: Woods won the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational by seven shots. Photo: Getty Images\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/6746b_article-2384576-1B261283000005DC-106_634x449.jpg\" width=\"383\" height=\"271\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Champion: Woods won the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational by seven shots. Photo: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>World number one <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/woods-ready-to-win-another-pga-championship\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tiger Woods<\/a> and new British Open champion <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/mickelson-aims-to-become-golfs-number-one\/\" target=\"_blank\">Phil Mickelson<\/a> are on a collision course, fighting it out for the year\u2019s last major golf crown at the <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/woods-full-of-confidence-ahead-of-pga\/\" target=\"_blank\">95th PGA Championship<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Practice began on Monday at <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Oak Hill Country Club\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=43.1144444444,-77.5319444444spn=0.01,0.01q=43.1144444444,-77.5319444444 (Oak%20Hill%20Country%20Club)t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Oak Hill Country Club<\/a> with Woods coming off a seven-stroke triumph at the World Golf Championships <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/tiger-woods-leads-bridgestone-by-seven\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bridgestone Invitational<\/a>, his eighth triumph at Firestone Country Club, and Mickelson still enjoying last month\u2019s British Open win at Muirfield.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Phil and I have battled, it has been in big events and we\u2019ve shot some pretty good rounds together and against each other,\u201d Woods said.<\/p>\n<p>Woods, a 14-time major winner chasing the all-time record of 18 majors won by <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/great-stars-in-british-open-golf-history\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Nicklaus<\/a>, has not won a major title since the 2008 US Open but says he feels no extra urgency to win the last major before his 38th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs far as wanting it more than any other, no. It\u2019s the same,\u201d Woods said. \u201cThose are the events that we try and peak for and win. Each and every major, I always want them. I\u2019ve been successful 14 times and hopefully (this) will be 15.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mickelson, a <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/mickelson-aims-to-become-golfs-number-one\/\" target=\"_blank\">US Open runner-up<\/a> for the sixth time in June, captured his fifth major crown and second victory of the year in July and is confident his game is near its peak at Oak Hill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve studied the golf course,\u201d Mickelson said. \u201cI know exactly how I\u2019m going to play it. I just need to get my game sharp now.\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">AFP<\/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.dnaindia.com\/sport\/1870704\/report-major-starved-tiger-woods-looking-forward-to-battle-with-mickelson-during-us-pga-championship\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/6746b_191310558_80_80.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnaindia.com\/sport\/1870704\/report-major-starved-tiger-woods-looking-forward-to-battle-with-mickelson-during-us-pga-championship\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Major starved\u2019 Tiger Woods looking forward to \u2018battle\u2019 with Mickelson during US PGA Championship<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/ten-things-about-the-pga-championship\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/6746b_191011099_80_801.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/ten-things-about-the-pga-championship\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ten things about the PGA Championship<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bigpondnews.com\/articles\/Sport\/2013\/08\/06\/Tiger_and_Phil_set_for_PGA_duel_894044.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/6746b_191287519_80_80.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/bigpondnews.com\/articles\/Sport\/2013\/08\/06\/Tiger_and_Phil_set_for_PGA_duel_894044.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tiger and Phil set for PGA duel<\/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\/1f891_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Champion: Woods won the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational by seven shots. Photo: Getty Images World number one Tiger Woods and new British Open champion Phil Mickelson are on a collision course, fighting it out for the year\u2019s last major golf crown at the 95th PGA Championship. Practice began on Monday at Oak Hill Country Club with Woods [&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-21740","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\/21740","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=21740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}