{"id":9059,"date":"2012-03-19T03:19:43","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T01:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/update-2-golf-donald-regains-number-one-ranking-with-victory\/"},"modified":"2012-03-19T03:19:43","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T01:19:43","slug":"update-2-golf-donald-regains-number-one-ranking-with-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-2-golf-donald-regains-number-one-ranking-with-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2-Golf-Donald regains number one ranking with victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Adds quotes, details)<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">March 18<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Englishman Luke Donald regained the<br \/>\nnumber one ranking from Rory McIlroy when he won the Transitions<br \/>\nChampionship at Palm Harbor, Florida on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Donald clinched the tournament after he won a sudden-death<br \/>\nplayoff with South Korean Bae Sang-moon and the American pair of<br \/>\nRobert Garrigus and Jim Furyk.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obviously it feels great. My focus this week was to try and<br \/>\nwin. I wasn&#8217;t really thinking about the world rankings,&#8221; Donald<br \/>\nsaid.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The four finished the event locked at 13-under-par, just one<br \/>\nstroke clear of another group of four players, on a heavily<br \/>\ncongested leaderboard.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Donald, who had closed with a bogey-free round of five-under<br \/>\n66, won on the first playoff hole when he drained a birdie putt<br \/>\nfrom less than seven feet after a brilliant approach shot from<br \/>\naround 157 yards out of the rough.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Garrigues, who finished with a 64, two hours before the<br \/>\nfinal group, narrowly missed a birdie putt from seven feet. Bae,<br \/>\nwho closed with a 68, and Furyk (6), both missed longer,<br \/>\ndownhill putts.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had a great day,&#8221; said Garrigues.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you would have told me I would have been in a playoff<br \/>\nthis morning when I woke up, I would have pretty much told you<br \/>\nyou were crazy.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Adds quotes, details) March 18 (Reuters) &#8211; Englishman Luke Donald regained the number one ranking from Rory McIlroy when he won the Transitions Championship at Palm Harbor, Florida on Sunday. Donald clinched the tournament after he won a sudden-death playoff with South Korean Bae Sang-moon and the American pair of Robert Garrigus and Jim Furyk. [&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-9059","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\/9059","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=9059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}