{"id":9527,"date":"2012-04-01T03:43:41","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T01:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/golf-maggert-holds-one-shot-lead-at-weather-hit-houston-open\/"},"modified":"2012-04-01T03:43:41","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T01:43:41","slug":"golf-maggert-holds-one-shot-lead-at-weather-hit-houston-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/golf-maggert-holds-one-shot-lead-at-weather-hit-houston-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf-Maggert holds one-shot lead at weather-hit Houston Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

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March 31<\/span> (Reuters) – American Jeff Maggert birdied three of
\nhis last eight holes to grab a one-shot lead when the
\nweather-delayed second round of the Houston Open was finally
\ncompleted in Humble, Texas on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n

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One of 70 players still out on the course when play was
\nhalted in fading light on Friday, Maggert carded a six-under-par
\n66 to post a 12-under total of 132 at the rain-softened Redstone
\nGolf Club in the final tune-up event before next week’s Masters.<\/p>\n

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The 48-year-old American, a three-times winner on the PGA
\nTour, briefly got to 13 under with a birdie at the eighth but he
\nthen three-putted to bogey his final hole, the par-three ninth.<\/p>\n

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Britain’s Brian Davis (65), South African Louis Oosthuizen
\n(66) and American James Driscoll (66) were tied for second at 11
\nunder with defending champion Phil Mickelson (70) among a group
\nof six players a further two strokes back.<\/p>\n

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Maggert was delighted to be at the top of the leaderboard
\nafter missing the cut in his previous five starts on the PGA
\nTour.<\/p>\n

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“The ball-striking has probably been the key,” he told
\nreporters after carding seven birdies and one bogey. “I’ve been
\nhitting the ball really well this week, a lot of shots close to
\nthe hole where I’m not having to make 15, 20-footers for birdie.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

“The greens are really rolling nice this week. I’ve got
\npretty good confidence right now after making quite a few putts
\nthe last two days so I’m looking forward to this afternoon.”<\/p>\n

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More than an inch of rain saturated the course on Thursday
\nand tournament organisers allowed the players to lift, clean and
\nreplace their balls in the delayed second round.<\/p>\n

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Asked how he had managed to regain form after his run of
\nmissed cuts, Maggert replied: “It’s a strange game. I started
\nthe year playing really well… then just had a little stretch
\nthere where I wasn’t hitting it that great.
\n\u00a0 Continued…<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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March 31 (Reuters) – American Jeff Maggert birdied three of his last eight holes to grab a one-shot lead when the weather-delayed second round of the Houston Open was finally completed in Humble, Texas on Saturday. One of 70 players still out on the course when play was halted in fading light on Friday, Maggert […]<\/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-9527","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\/9527","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=9527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}