{"id":8257,"date":"2012-02-24T02:31:48","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T00:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/update-1-golf-mahan-and-johnson-cruise-tiger-toils\/"},"modified":"2012-02-24T02:31:48","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T00:31:48","slug":"update-1-golf-mahan-and-johnson-cruise-tiger-toils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-golf-mahan-and-johnson-cruise-tiger-toils\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Golf-Mahan and Johnson cruise, Tiger toils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Mahan crushes Yang 53<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Johnson thumps Molinari 75<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Woods one down to Watney after 16 holes<\/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 23 (Reuters) &#8211; While Tiger Woods<br \/>\nwas toiling in his match, fellow Americans Hunter Mahan and<br \/>\nDustin Johnson eased into the third round of the WGC-Accenture<br \/>\nMatch Play Championship with commanding victories on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mahan became the first player to advance, crushing South<br \/>\nKorean Yang Yong-eun 53, and Johnson followed with a 75<br \/>\ndemolition of Italy&#8217;s Francesco Molinari at Dove Mountain&#8217;s<br \/>\nRitz-Carlton Golf Club.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Three-times champion Woods, however, was one down to fellow<br \/>\nAmerican Nick Watney after 16 holes in his bid for a first PGA<br \/>\nTour victory in over two years.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>British world number three Lee Westwood reached the third<br \/>\nround for the first time in 12 appearances at the event, beating<br \/>\nSwede Robert Karlsson 32, and fourth-ranked German Martin<br \/>\nKaymer edged past American David Toms two up.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In blazing desert sunshine, Mahan birdied six of the first<br \/>\neight holes to go four up on Yang and recovered from bogeys at<br \/>\nthe ninth and 10th to seal the win on the 15th green.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Mahan crushes Yang 53 * Johnson thumps Molinari 75 * Woods one down to Watney after 16 holes (Updates with later matches) By Mark Lamport-Stokes MARANA, Arizona, Feb 23 (Reuters) &#8211; While Tiger Woods was toiling in his match, fellow Americans Hunter Mahan and Dustin Johnson eased into the third round of the WGC-Accenture [&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-8257","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\/8257","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=8257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}