{"id":9678,"date":"2012-04-06T03:51:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T01:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/update-4-golf-westwood-takes-masters-control-woods-five-back\/"},"modified":"2012-04-06T03:51:35","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T01:51:35","slug":"update-4-golf-westwood-takes-masters-control-woods-five-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-4-golf-westwood-takes-masters-control-woods-five-back\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 4-Golf-Westwood takes Masters control, Woods five back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Westwood ends dramatic day one stroke clear<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Oosthuizen birdies final hole for a 68<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Woods trails by five after bogey-bogey finish<\/p>\n<p> (Updates at end of round)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Mark Lamport-Stokes<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>AUGUSTA, Georgia, April 5 (Reuters) &#8211; British world number<br \/>\nthree Lee Westwood ended a day of high drama and tumultuous<br \/>\nswings of fortune by grabbing a one-shot lead in Thursday&#8217;s<br \/>\nopening round of the Masters.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The straight-hitting Englishman, who has yet to win a major<br \/>\ntitle, fired a five-under-par 67 at a rain-softened Augusta<br \/>\nNational where tough pin positions posed all sorts of problems<br \/>\nfor the game&#8217;s leading players.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Westwood birdied the par-four 17th, then parred the<br \/>\ndifficult 18th to edge one ahead of South African Louis<br \/>\nOosthuizen, who stormed up the leaderboard with four birdies in<br \/>\nthe last five holes, and ice-cool Swede Peter Hanson.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Pony-tailed Spaniard Miguel Angel Jimenez, Italy&#8217;s Francesco<br \/>\nMolinari, Britain&#8217;s Paul Lawrie, Americans Ben Crane, Bubba<br \/>\nWatson and Jason Dufner carded 69s while tournament favourite<br \/>\nTiger Woods eked out a level-par 72 after bogeying 17 and 18.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Westwood, who finished second here in 2010 when he also<br \/>\nopened with a 67, was delighted with his strong start in the<br \/>\nyear&#8217;s first major.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Westwood ends dramatic day one stroke clear * Oosthuizen birdies final hole for a 68 * Woods trails by five after bogey-bogey finish (Updates at end of round) By Mark Lamport-Stokes AUGUSTA, Georgia, April 5 (Reuters) &#8211; British world number three Lee Westwood ended a day of high drama and tumultuous swings of fortune [&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-9678","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\/9678","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=9678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}