{"id":9006,"date":"2012-03-17T03:15:55","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T01:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/golf-little-known-spaniard-de-la-riva-leads-in-andalucia\/"},"modified":"2012-03-17T03:15:55","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T01:15:55","slug":"golf-little-known-spaniard-de-la-riva-leads-in-andalucia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/golf-little-known-spaniard-de-la-riva-leads-in-andalucia\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf-Little-known Spaniard De la Riva leads in Andalucia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">March 16<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Unheralded Spaniard Eduardo de la<br \/>\nRiva drilled in a birdie putt on the final hole to secure a<br \/>\none-shot lead after the second round of the Andalucia Open on<br \/>\nFriday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old, on eight-under 136 after carding a 69, is<br \/>\none ahead of Matteo Manassero (73) of Italy, tournament host<br \/>\nMiguel Angel Jimenez (68) and his fellow Spaniard Pablo<br \/>\nLarrazabal (69), Ireland&#8217;s Damien McGrane (68) and Tommy<br \/>\nFleetwood of Britain (69).<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Among eight players on six under are Abu Dhabi Championship<br \/>\nwinner Robert Rock (69) and Ryder Cup player Edoardo Molinari of<br \/>\nItaly who shot a 65, the day&#8217;s best round.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had a poor start,&#8221; said De la Riva who has yet to record<br \/>\na victory.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was beginning to lose confidence but then I hit it close<br \/>\nand made birdie on the third &#8211; that settled me,&#8221; he told the<br \/>\ntour&#8217;s website (www.europeantour.com).<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am very pleased with my birdie on 18 which is a<br \/>\nchallenging par-four.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Teenager Manassero, the youngest winner of a tour event,<br \/>\nequalled the course record at the Aloha Golf Club with an<br \/>\neight-under 64 on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Jimenez, 48, will become the oldest tour champion if he wins<br \/>\nhis 19th title on Sunday.\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 16 (Reuters) &#8211; Unheralded Spaniard Eduardo de la Riva drilled in a birdie putt on the final hole to secure a one-shot lead after the second round of the Andalucia Open on Friday. The 29-year-old, on eight-under 136 after carding a 69, is one ahead of Matteo Manassero (73) of Italy, tournament host Miguel [&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-9006","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\/9006","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=9006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}