{"id":8218,"date":"2012-02-23T02:31:23","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T00:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/update-2-golf-top-seed-donald-exits-tiger-scrapes-through\/"},"modified":"2012-02-23T02:31:23","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T00:31:23","slug":"update-2-golf-top-seed-donald-exits-tiger-scrapes-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-2-golf-top-seed-donald-exits-tiger-scrapes-through\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2-Golf-Top seed Donald exits, Tiger scrapes through"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Woods edges past Fernandez-Castano one up<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Bae upsets Poulter 43; Yang edges McDowell 21<\/p>\n<p> (Updates with later matches)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Mark Lamport-Stokes<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>MARANA, Arizona, Feb 22 (Reuters) &#8211; Top seed and<br \/>\ndefending champion Luke Donald crashed out of the WGC-Accenture<br \/>\nMatch Play Championship on Wednesday, losing 54 to late-entry<br \/>\nErnie Els in the opening round.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Donald won last year&#8217;s title with an imperious display,<br \/>\nnever trailing in any of his six matches, but he struggled<br \/>\nagainst South African Els on a sun-splashed day at Dove<br \/>\nMountain&#8217;s Ritz-Carlton Golf Club.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The triple major champion made the most of an error-prone<br \/>\nperformance by the British world number one and sealed victory<br \/>\nwhen he sank a 10-foot birdie putt at the par-four 14th.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not sure where to start,&#8221; a subdued Donald told<br \/>\nreporters. &#8220;I just didn&#8217;t play very well. It&#8217;s disappointing.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been working really hard.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I struggled. I gave away too many holes and made too many<br \/>\nmistakes. You can&#8217;t do that in match play against anyone, let<br \/>\nalone Ernie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The lowest-ranked player in the elite field of 64, former<br \/>\nworld number one Els was gifted a spot at Dove Mountain when<br \/>\nPhil Mickelson withdrew to spend time with his family.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Woods edges past Fernandez-Castano one up * Bae upsets Poulter 43; Yang edges McDowell 21 (Updates with later matches) By Mark Lamport-Stokes MARANA, Arizona, Feb 22 (Reuters) &#8211; Top seed and defending champion Luke Donald crashed out of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship on Wednesday, losing 54 to late-entry Ernie Els in the opening [&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-8218","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\/8218","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=8218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}