{"id":6780,"date":"2012-01-06T20:23:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T18:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/01\/golf-king-louis-rules-after-62-at-the-africa-open\/"},"modified":"2012-01-06T20:23:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T18:23:00","slug":"golf-king-louis-rules-after-62-at-the-africa-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/golf-king-louis-rules-after-62-at-the-africa-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf-King Louis rules after 62 at the Africa Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Jason Humphries<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">EAST LONDON, South Africa<\/span> Jan 6 (Reuters) &#8211; Holder<br \/>\nLouis Oosthuizen blazed his way to an 11-under-par 62 to seize a<br \/>\ntwo-stroke lead after the second round of the Africa Open on<br \/>\nFriday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 2010 British Open champion&#8217;s effort was one shy of the<br \/>\ncourse record as he took just 25 putts to finish with a 15-under<br \/>\ntally of 131.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old Oosthuizen made good use of his early tee<br \/>\ntime at the East London Golf Club, a lack of wind in the morning<br \/>\nleaving the coastal course defenceless.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Oosthuizen did not drop a shot to par and reeled off nine<br \/>\nbirdies and an eagle two at the 308-yard sixth.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I felt good over the ball today. I was a bit more<br \/>\naggressive. I trusted my swing more and it paid off,&#8221; he told<br \/>\nreporters.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The putting has turned around in the last three or four<br \/>\nmonths. I found a new grip which improved my consistency. You<br \/>\nhave those days when you hit good putts and don&#8217;t make anything<br \/>\nbut days like today you just smile and go with it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa&#8217;s Thomas Aiken, the overnight leader, was in a<br \/>\ngroup of four players in a tie for second place on 133 alongside<br \/>\ncompatriots Tjaart van der Walt, Jaco Ahlers and double U.S.<br \/>\nOpen champion Retief Goosen.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Aiken signed for a 69 while Goosen shrugged off two bogeys<br \/>\nto return a 68.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jason Humphries EAST LONDON, South Africa Jan 6 (Reuters) &#8211; Holder Louis Oosthuizen blazed his way to an 11-under-par 62 to seize a two-stroke lead after the second round of the Africa Open on Friday. The 2010 British Open champion&#8217;s effort was one shy of the course record as he took just 25 putts [&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-6780","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\/6780","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=6780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}