{"id":21827,"date":"2013-08-11T13:08:30","date_gmt":"2013-08-11T11:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/us-open-ghost-haunts-furyk-as-he-leads-pga-championship\/"},"modified":"2013-08-11T13:08:30","modified_gmt":"2013-08-11T11:08:30","slug":"us-open-ghost-haunts-furyk-as-he-leads-pga-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/us-open-ghost-haunts-furyk-as-he-leads-pga-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"US Open ghost haunts Furyk as he leads PGA Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Jim_Furyk.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"lightbox[13067]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured\" title=\"English: Jim Furyk in 2010.\" alt=\"English: Jim Furyk in 2010.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/51d4f_300px-Jim_Furyk.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"416\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">English: Jim Furyk in 2010. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)<\/p>\n<p>With some clutch putting at the end, Jim Furyk headed to the final round of the PGA Championship with a one-shot lead.<\/p>\n<p>Furyk shot a 2-under 68 on Saturday at Oak Hill, capped by an 18-foot birdie putt on the tough 17th hole and a gritty putt from the fringe to save par at No. 18.<\/p>\n<p>The 43-year-old American pumped his fist emphatically and headed off to the clubhouse, out front heading to Sunday in a major for the first time since last year\u2019s US Open. At Olympic, he lost out on his second major title with two bogeys on the last three holes.<\/p>\n<p>Furyk was at 9-under 201.<\/p>\n<p>Jason Dufner, the 36-hole leader, followed a record-tying 63 with a 71 to drop a stroke off the pace.<\/p>\n<p>Henrik Stenson was 7 under after a 69, with fellow Swede Jonas Blixt another stroke back following a 66.<\/p>\n<p>On a warm, sunny day when <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/mickelson-and-woods-in-the-rough-at-pga-championship\/\" target=\"_blank\">Oak Hill finally showed its bite<\/a>, Furyk bounced back from a sluggish start to seize the top spot on the leaderboard of the 2013 PGA Championship. \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/08\/10\/pga-championship-2013-jim-furyk_n_3737727.html?ir=Sports\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\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\/51d4f_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English: Jim Furyk in 2010. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) With some clutch putting at the end, Jim Furyk headed to the final round of the PGA Championship with a one-shot lead. Furyk shot a 2-under 68 on Saturday at Oak Hill, capped by an 18-foot birdie putt on the tough 17th hole and a gritty putt [&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-21827","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\/21827","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=21827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}