{"id":6213,"date":"2011-12-17T00:26:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T22:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/12\/update-1-golf-westwood-wows-again-to-open-up-big-lead-in-thailand-2\/"},"modified":"2011-12-17T00:26:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T22:26:00","slug":"update-1-golf-westwood-wows-again-to-open-up-big-lead-in-thailand-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-golf-westwood-wows-again-to-open-up-big-lead-in-thailand-2\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Golf-Westwood wows again to open up big lead in Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Updates at end of play, adds quotes)<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Westwood equals 36-hole Asian Tour record<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Briton shoots 64 to lead by 11<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dec 16 (Reuters) &#8211; World number three Lee Westwood<br \/>\ncontinued his sparkling form by shooting an eight-under-par 64<br \/>\nat the Thailand Golf Championship on Friday to tie the lowest<br \/>\n36-hole total at an Asian Tour event.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Englishman followed up his career-best 12-under-par 60<br \/>\non Thursday with eight birdies in a bogey-free round to equal<br \/>\nthe Asian Tour record set by Thailand&#8217;s Chapchai Nirat at the<br \/>\n2009 Sail Open in India.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Westwood&#8217;s 124 total gave him a clubhouse lead of 14 shots<br \/>\nbefore U.S. Masters champion Charl Schwartzel shot a 66 in the<br \/>\nafternoon to cut the lead to 11.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s 14 now, outrageous isn&#8217;t it?&#8221; Westwood told reporters<br \/>\nat the Amata Spring Country Club, 80 kilometres east of Bangkok,<br \/>\nafter his round.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s still a long way to go. But at the same time, I&#8217;m<br \/>\nlooking forward to the weekend. I&#8217;m playing great and I&#8217;m<br \/>\nfeeling in total control. Every aspect of my game feels good.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Strange really. Today almost felt better than yesterday. It<br \/>\nwas quite tough out there. The scoring is pretty tricky. 64 is a<br \/>\nreally good score; not that 60 wasn&#8217;t a good score yesterday.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Updates at end of play, adds quotes) * Westwood equals 36-hole Asian Tour record * Briton shoots 64 to lead by 11 Dec 16 (Reuters) &#8211; World number three Lee Westwood continued his sparkling form by shooting an eight-under-par 64 at the Thailand Golf Championship on Friday to tie the lowest 36-hole total at an [&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":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-6213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","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\/6213","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=6213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}