{"id":9540,"date":"2012-04-02T03:45:24","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T01:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/update-1-golf-american-mahan-wins-houston-open-by-one-shot\/"},"modified":"2012-04-02T03:45:24","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T01:45:24","slug":"update-1-golf-american-mahan-wins-houston-open-by-one-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-golf-american-mahan-wins-houston-open-by-one-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Golf-American Mahan wins Houston Open by one shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Overnight leader Oosthuizen finishes two shots back<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Mickelson finishes in a tie for fourth place<\/p>\n<p> (Adds quotes and details)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">April 1<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; American Hunter Mahan became the first<br \/>\ngolfer to record multiple wins on the PGA Tour this year by<br \/>\nclaiming a one-stroke victory over Sweden&#8217;s Carl Pettersson at<br \/>\nthe Houston Open in Humble, Texas, on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mahan, who won the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship in<br \/>\nFebruary, shot a one-under-par 71 in Sunday&#8217;s final round at<br \/>\nRedstone for a 16-under-par total of 272.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel great. I had the lead for most of the back nine and<br \/>\nhit some clutch shots, especially on 18. It feels great,&#8221; Mahan<br \/>\nsaid after claiming his fifth career victory on the PGA Tour.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mahan, 29, said the victory boosted his confidence and that<br \/>\nhe was looking forward to a chance at capturing his first major<br \/>\nchampionship at the April 5-8 Masters at Augusta National.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m playing good. I&#8217;m glad I&#8217;m going to Augusta, it&#8217;s<br \/>\nreally a special place and I&#8217;m looking forward to going there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Pettersson, who held the lead before a two-shot swing in the<br \/>\nmiddle of the round put Mahan back on top of the leaderboard,<br \/>\nalso posted a 71 for 273.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Former British Open champion Louis Oosthuizen of South<br \/>\nAfrica began the day with a two-stroke lead but double-bogeyed<br \/>\nthe fifth and eighth holes to slide back.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Overnight leader Oosthuizen finishes two shots back * Mickelson finishes in a tie for fourth place (Adds quotes and details) April 1 (Reuters) &#8211; American Hunter Mahan became the first golfer to record multiple wins on the PGA Tour this year by claiming a one-stroke victory over Sweden&#8217;s Carl Pettersson at the Houston Open [&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-9540","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\/9540","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=9540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}