{"id":9060,"date":"2012-03-19T03:19:44","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T01:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/update-1-golf-donald-regains-no-1-ranking\/"},"modified":"2012-03-19T03:19:44","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T01:19:44","slug":"update-1-golf-donald-regains-no-1-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-golf-donald-regains-no-1-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Golf-Donald regains No. 1 ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Adds 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>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>The win provided the 34-year-old with his fifth victory on<br \/>\nthe PGA Tour and elevated him back to the top of the world<br \/>\nrankings.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Donald had been number one until he was passed by McIlroy<br \/>\ntwo weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South African Ernie Els led the event for most of the final<br \/>\nday before making bogey on each of the last two holes to miss<br \/>\nout on the playoff by a shot.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Julian Linden in New York; Editing by Mark<br \/>\nMeadows; Please double-click on the newslink:; for<br \/>\nmore golf stories)<\/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>(Adds 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. The [&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-9060","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\/9060","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=9060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}