{"id":7493,"date":"2012-01-29T21:17:25","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T19:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/01\/golf-rock-is-abu-dhabi-champion-after-woods-fades\/"},"modified":"2012-01-29T21:17:25","modified_gmt":"2012-01-29T19:17:25","slug":"golf-rock-is-abu-dhabi-champion-after-woods-fades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/golf-rock-is-abu-dhabi-champion-after-woods-fades\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf-Rock is Abu Dhabi champion after Woods fades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">ABU DHABI<\/span> Jan 29 (Reuters) &#8211; Britain&#8217;s Robert Rock<br \/>\nwon his head-to-head duel with a ragged Tiger Woods to lift the<br \/>\nAbu Dhabi Championship title on Sunday after the former world<br \/>\nnumber one produced his worst performance of the week.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The two players started the day in a tie for the lead and it<br \/>\nwas the little-known Rock who held his nerve on the final day to<br \/>\ncollect his second European Tour victory with a closing 70 for<br \/>\n275, 13 under.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Woods&#8217;s excellent play over the first three days at the<br \/>\ndemanding Abu Dhabi Golf Club indicated the 14-times major<br \/>\nchampion was back to his best but his game unravelled on Sunday<br \/>\nas he faded to a 72 for 277.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>World number three Rory McIlroy (69) finished second on 276<br \/>\nwhile Woods had to settle for a share of third spot with former<br \/>\nU.S. Open champion Graeme McDowell (68), who had a hole-in-one<br \/>\nat the 12th, and Dane Thomas Bjorn (68).        \t<\/p>\n<p> (Writing by Tony Jimenez in London, editing by John Mehaffey;<br \/>\nTo comment on 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>ABU DHABI Jan 29 (Reuters) &#8211; Britain&#8217;s Robert Rock won his head-to-head duel with a ragged Tiger Woods to lift the Abu Dhabi Championship title on Sunday after the former world number one produced his worst performance of the week. The two players started the day in a tie for the lead and it was [&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-7493","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\/7493","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=7493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}