{"id":8975,"date":"2012-03-16T03:14:22","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T01:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/golf-manassero-leads-in-andalucia-after-course-record-tying-64\/"},"modified":"2012-03-16T03:14:22","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T01:14:22","slug":"golf-manassero-leads-in-andalucia-after-course-record-tying-64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/golf-manassero-leads-in-andalucia-after-course-record-tying-64\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf-Manassero leads in Andalucia after course record tying 64"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">March 15<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Italian teenager Matteo Manassero<br \/>\nequalled the course record with a blistering eight-under-par 64<br \/>\nto storm into the lead after the opening round of the Andalucia<br \/>\nOpen on Thursday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now 18, Manassero was just 17 years and 188 days old when he<br \/>\nwon by four strokes at the Castello Masters in Spain in October<br \/>\n2010 to become the youngest champion on the European Tour.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The world number 63 returned nine birdies and a solitary<br \/>\nbogey at the Aloha Golf Club in Marbella to open a three-stroke<br \/>\nadvantage over South African Hennie Otto, Spaniard Eduardo de la<br \/>\nRiva, Britons Anthony Wall and Lloyd Kennedy and Swede Niclas<br \/>\nFasth.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A group of six, including former U.S. Masters winner Mike<br \/>\nWeir of Canada, were a stroke further back on four under while<br \/>\ntournament host Miguel Angel Jimenez and Abu Dhabi champion<br \/>\nRobert Rock of Britain were among several players on 69.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is quite similar to Castellon &#8211; a little bit more<br \/>\nhilly maybe,&#8221; said Manassero who has two tour wins under his<br \/>\nbelt and is bidding to climb into the top-50 in time for next<br \/>\nmonth&#8217;s U.S. Masters.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You need to put the ball in play and then do well around<br \/>\nthe greens,&#8221; he told the tour&#8217;s website (www.europeantour.com).<br \/>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s a course that suits me pretty well.&#8221;\t<\/p>\n<p> (Writing by Iain Rogers in Madrid, editing by Tony Jimenez)<\/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>March 15 (Reuters) &#8211; Italian teenager Matteo Manassero equalled the course record with a blistering eight-under-par 64 to storm into the lead after the opening round of the Andalucia Open on Thursday. Now 18, Manassero was just 17 years and 188 days old when he won by four strokes at the Castello Masters in Spain [&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-8975","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\/8975","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=8975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}