{"id":9749,"date":"2012-04-09T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/update-6-golf-tearful-watson-wins-masters-in-playoff\/"},"modified":"2012-04-09T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T02:00:00","slug":"update-6-golf-tearful-watson-wins-masters-in-playoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-6-golf-tearful-watson-wins-masters-in-playoff\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 6-Golf-Tearful Watson wins Masters in playoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* American left-hander claims first major title<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Edges out Oosthuizen at second extra hole<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Woods exits with worst Masters finish as a pro<\/p>\n<p> (Adds detail, quotes)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Mark Lamport-Stokes<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>April 8 (Reuters) &#8211; American Bubba Watson conjured a<br \/>\nmiraculous par from pine straw to become only the third<br \/>\nleft-hander to win the Masters with an emotional playoff victory<br \/>\nover Louis Oosthuizen at Augusta National on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Watson clinched his first major title with a two-putt par on<br \/>\nthe second extra hole, the par-four 10th, where South African<br \/>\nOosthuizen bogeyed after ending up just short of the green in<br \/>\ntwo and failing to get up and down.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Both players had ended up well right off the tee, Oosthuizen<br \/>\ngaining a fortuitous bounce off a tree before playing his second<br \/>\nshot from the first cut of rough.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Although the long-hitting Watson ended up deep in the tree<br \/>\nline, he had an avenue to the green and struck a superb high<br \/>\ndraw off the pine straw for his ball to settle 10 feet from the<br \/>\npin.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>After Oosthuizen had chipped up 15 feet past and narrowly<br \/>\nmissed his par putt coming back, Watson had the luxury of two<br \/>\nputts for victory.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* American left-hander claims first major title * Edges out Oosthuizen at second extra hole * Woods exits with worst Masters finish as a pro (Adds detail, quotes) By Mark Lamport-Stokes April 8 (Reuters) &#8211; American Bubba Watson conjured a miraculous par from pine straw to become only the third left-hander to win the Masters [&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-9749","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\/9749","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=9749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}