{"id":7190,"date":"2012-01-19T20:55:40","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T18:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/01\/golf-last-hole-recovery-secures-open-spot-for-veenstra\/"},"modified":"2012-01-19T20:55:40","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T18:55:40","slug":"golf-last-hole-recovery-secures-open-spot-for-veenstra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/golf-last-hole-recovery-secures-open-spot-for-veenstra\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf-Last hole recovery secures Open spot for Veenstra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocatio\/spann\">Jan 19 (Reuters) &#8211; South African Grant Veenstra<br \/>\nproduced a brilliant escape from the rough at the last hole to<br \/>\nclinch top spot in British Open International Final Qualifying<br \/>\n(Africa) on Thursday.<span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old carded rounds of 71 and 67 at the 36-hole<br \/>\nevent to qualify for the July 19-22 championship at Royal Lytham<br \/>\nalong with compatriot Andrew Georgiou and Brazilian Adilson Da<br \/>\nSilva who both finished one shot off the pace on 139.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On 16 I hit my poorest shot of the day, landed it right in<br \/>\nthe water and made a double-bogey five,&#8221; Veenstra told reporters<br \/>\nat the Royal Johannesburg and Kensington course.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But then that shot on the 18th was my best this year. I hit<br \/>\nit from the long grass and landed it 25 feet from the pin.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That was the best recovery I&#8217;ve made from the rough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The next British Open International Final Qualifying event<br \/>\nis the Asian version in Bangkok on March 1-2.         \t<\/p>\n<p> (Writing by Tony Jimenez, editing by John Mehaffey; To comment<br \/>\non this story: sportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.com)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan 19 (Reuters) &#8211; South African Grant Veenstra produced a brilliant escape from the rough at the last hole to clinch top spot in British Open International Final Qualifying (Africa) on Thursday. The 28-year-old carded rounds of 71 and 67 at the 36-hole event to qualify for the July 19-22 championship at Royal Lytham along [&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-7190","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\/7190","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=7190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}