{"id":6247,"date":"2011-12-19T00:30:36","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T22:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/12\/golf-westwood-clinches-thailand-title-to-scale-rankings\/"},"modified":"2011-12-19T00:30:36","modified_gmt":"2011-12-18T22:30:36","slug":"golf-westwood-clinches-thailand-title-to-scale-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/golf-westwood-clinches-thailand-title-to-scale-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf-Westwood clinches Thailand title to scale rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Martin Petty<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">CHON BURI, Thailand<\/span> Dec 18 (Reuters) &#8211; Englishman Lee<br \/>\nWestwood surged to a seven shot victory at the Thailand Golf<br \/>\nChampionship on Sunday, capping off another sparkling<br \/>\nperformance in Asia that is set to push him up to second in the<br \/>\nworld rankings.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Westwood maintained the chunky lead he held from day one and<br \/>\nput paid to South African Charl Schwartzel&#8217;s brief resurgence,<br \/>\ncarding a final day three-under-par 69 on a notoriously tricky<br \/>\ncourse to clinch his third victory in Asia this season.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>As Schwartzel faded to a level-par 72 to finish second, the<br \/>\nEnglishman extended his four-stroke lead to seven to win the<br \/>\nAsian Tour&#8217;s $1 million season-ending inaugural tournament and<br \/>\nnotch his 37th career title.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve amazed myself really,&#8221; Westwood said after sinking his<br \/>\nfinal putt on the 18th. &#8220;It&#8217;s been staggering, it all came<br \/>\ntogether well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Editing by Patrick Johnston. To query or comment on this<br \/>\nstory email sportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.com)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Please double-click on the newslink below:<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>for more golf stories<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Martin Petty; Editing by)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2011 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Martin Petty CHON BURI, Thailand Dec 18 (Reuters) &#8211; Englishman Lee Westwood surged to a seven shot victory at the Thailand Golf Championship on Sunday, capping off another sparkling performance in Asia that is set to push him up to second in the world rankings. Westwood maintained the chunky lead he held from day [&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-6247","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\/6247","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=6247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}