{"id":9092,"date":"2012-03-19T15:21:43","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T13:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/golf-donald-keen-to-prove-hes-no-cool-hand-fluke\/"},"modified":"2012-03-19T15:21:43","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T13:21:43","slug":"golf-donald-keen-to-prove-hes-no-cool-hand-fluke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/golf-donald-keen-to-prove-hes-no-cool-hand-fluke\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf-Donald keen to prove he&#8217;s no &#8216;Cool Hand Fluke&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">March 19<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Luke Donald is desperate to show the<br \/>\ngolfing world his remarkable 2011 season was no fluke and<br \/>\nvictory at the Transitions Championship in Florida represented<br \/>\ntimely encouragement.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old, displaced as world number one by fellow<br \/>\nBriton Rory McIlroy two weeks ago, went back to the top of the<br \/>\nrankings after beating Americans Jim Furyk and Robert Garrigus<br \/>\nand South Korean Bae Sang-Moon in a four-way playoff on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>All four players finished 72 holes on 13-under-par and<br \/>\nDonald took the first prize after drilling a brilliant 150-yard<br \/>\napproach shot out of the rough at the opening sudden-death hole<br \/>\nand rolling in his birdie putt from seven feet.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Asked by reporters if he felt a sense of having been written<br \/>\noff after losing the number one ranking earlier this month,<br \/>\nDonald replied: &#8220;Absolutely.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think many people thought I could do what I did<br \/>\nlast year all over again this season. Hopefully now I can prove<br \/>\nthem wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Englishman won four titles worldwide in 2011 and became<br \/>\nthe first player to clinch the orders of merit on both sides of<br \/>\nthe Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a funny game,&#8221; said Donald. &#8220;It does come and go.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve had a slow start to this year and there have been doubts &#8211;<br \/>\nthey do creep in sometimes.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can certainly fall into the trap of looking at last<br \/>\nyear and how you played and kind of compare.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 19 (Reuters) &#8211; Luke Donald is desperate to show the golfing world his remarkable 2011 season was no fluke and victory at the Transitions Championship in Florida represented timely encouragement. The 34-year-old, displaced as world number one by fellow Briton Rory McIlroy two weeks ago, went back to the top of the rankings after [&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-9092","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\/9092","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=9092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}