{"id":22456,"date":"2013-09-06T14:09:14","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T12:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/unheralded-lahiri-lights-up-european-masters\/"},"modified":"2013-09-06T14:09:14","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T12:09:14","slug":"unheralded-lahiri-lights-up-european-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/unheralded-lahiri-lights-up-european-masters\/","title":{"rendered":"Unheralded Lahiri lights up European Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=15855\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15855\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-15855 \" alt=\"Anirban Lahiri. Photo: AFP\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/fc25f_000_hkg7998455_1378461626_540x540.jpg\" width=\"432\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anirban Lahiri. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n<p>Anirban Lahiri of India carded an eight under par 63 yesterday to claim a two-shot lead after the opening round of the European Masters at Crans-sur-Sierre.<\/p>\n<p>Ranked 178 in the world coming into the prestigious EPGA event in the Swiss Alps, the 26-year-old from Bangalore built his score around two eagles, including a 140-yard second shot on the ninth that flew straight into the cup.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/jimenez-criticizes-european-tour\/\" target=\"_blank\">Spanish veteran Miguel Angel Jimenez \u2013 who set the course record of 61 on his way to winning here in 2010<\/a> \u2013 and Englishmen Paul Casey and Tommy Fleetwood are all two shots back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s nice to come back here with a bang as it was a tough pill to swallow last year missing the cut in the manner I did, so I\u2019m delighted,\u201d said Lahiri.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did not get off to a great start today (Thursday) to be one over after four but then you never really expect to then have two eagles, so I tried just to build on the momentum of that.\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiatimes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">AFP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more European Tour news,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/tag\/european-tour\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more breaking sporting news and views, visit MySport24 on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MySport24\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mysport24?ref=hl\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/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\/dd6ca_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anirban Lahiri. Photo: AFP Anirban Lahiri of India carded an eight under par 63 yesterday to claim a two-shot lead after the opening round of the European Masters at Crans-sur-Sierre. Ranked 178 in the world coming into the prestigious EPGA event in the Swiss Alps, the 26-year-old from Bangalore built his score around two eagles, [&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-22456","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\/22456","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=22456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}