{"id":9714,"date":"2012-04-07T03:55:29","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T01:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/golf-former-masters-winners-meet-the-guillotine\/"},"modified":"2012-04-07T03:55:29","modified_gmt":"2012-04-07T01:55:29","slug":"golf-former-masters-winners-meet-the-guillotine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/golf-former-masters-winners-meet-the-guillotine\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf-Former Masters winners meet the guillotine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Simon Evans<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">AUGUSTA, Georgia, April 6<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; South African Trevor<br \/>\nImmelman, the Masters winner four years ago, made three birdies<br \/>\non the last six holes to narrowly avoid the cut at Augusta<br \/>\nNational on Friday but nine former winners of the tournament<br \/>\nfailed to survive.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Veterans Bernhard Langer, Larry Mize, Sandy Lyle, Ben<br \/>\nCrenshaw, Ian Woosnam, Craig Stadler and Tom Watson all failed<br \/>\nto make it to the weekend.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s disappointing. It&#8217;s very disappointing because I knew<br \/>\nwhat I had to do and I didn&#8217;t do it,&#8221; said the 62-year-old<br \/>\nWatson who finished second in the 2009 British Open.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mize&#8217;s appearance came 25 years after his Masters win but<br \/>\nthere was no repeat of 1987 when he chipped in to beat Greg<br \/>\nNorman in a playoff.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wasn&#8217;t as comfortable with my game at times as I would<br \/>\nlike to be on the course, but I always love playing this golf<br \/>\ncourse and coming here,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Canadian Mike Weir, the 2003 winner, and Spaniard Jose Maria<br \/>\nOlazabal, who triumphed at Augusta in 1994 and 1999 also failed<br \/>\nto progress into round three.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Japan&#8217;s Ryo Ishikawa, who was given an invitation to the<br \/>\ntournament, will not extend his stay after disappointing rounds<br \/>\nof 76 and 77.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Another Asian disappointment came in the form of South<br \/>\nKorean K.J Choi, who also finished nine over-par.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Simon Evans AUGUSTA, Georgia, April 6 (Reuters) &#8211; South African Trevor Immelman, the Masters winner four years ago, made three birdies on the last six holes to narrowly avoid the cut at Augusta National on Friday but nine former winners of the tournament failed to survive. Veterans Bernhard Langer, Larry Mize, Sandy Lyle, Ben [&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-9714","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\/9714","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=9714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}