{"id":9748,"date":"2012-04-09T03:59:59","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T01:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/golf-unlucky-break-ruins-mickelsons-masters-chances\/"},"modified":"2012-04-09T03:59:59","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T01:59:59","slug":"golf-unlucky-break-ruins-mickelsons-masters-chances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/golf-unlucky-break-ruins-mickelsons-masters-chances\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf-Unlucky break ruins Mickelson&#8217;s Masters chances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Julian Linden<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">AUGUSTA, Georgia, April 8<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Phil Mickelson has<br \/>\nalways been a risk taker on the golf course.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Never frightened to roll the dice even when the stakes are<br \/>\nat their highest, the American has endeared himself to a<br \/>\ngeneration of golf fans with his swashbuckling approach and<br \/>\nimprovisation.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>But even the highrollers lose some time and at the Masters<br \/>\non Sunday, Mickelson gambled and lost big.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>At the par three fourth hole, the left-hander&#8217;s luck ran out<br \/>\nwhen his tee shot hit a metal rail and richocheted into some<br \/>\nnearby bamboo shoots.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Faced with the option of returning to the tee to play his<br \/>\nthird shot, he decided to take a plunge and play out of the<br \/>\nrough but made a complete hash of it.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If it goes into people and stops right there, no problem.<br \/>\nIf it goes into the grand stand, no problem (but) it hit the<br \/>\nmetal railing and shot in the trees,&#8221; he explained.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And not only was it unplayable, but I couldn&#8217;t take an<br \/>\nunplayable. There was no place to go other than back to the tee.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So I took the risk of trying to hit it a few times.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Julian Linden AUGUSTA, Georgia, April 8 (Reuters) &#8211; Phil Mickelson has always been a risk taker on the golf course. Never frightened to roll the dice even when the stakes are at their highest, the American has endeared himself to a generation of golf fans with his swashbuckling approach and improvisation. But even the [&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-9748","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\/9748","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=9748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}