{"id":9752,"date":"2012-04-09T04:00:03","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T02:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/update-1-golf-watson-wins-masters-in-playoff-with-oosthuizen\/"},"modified":"2012-04-09T04:00:03","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T02:00:03","slug":"update-1-golf-watson-wins-masters-in-playoff-with-oosthuizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-golf-watson-wins-masters-in-playoff-with-oosthuizen\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Golf-Watson wins Masters in playoff with Oosthuizen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Adds detail)<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Mark Lamport-Stokes<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">AUGUSTA, Georgia, April 8<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; American Bubba Watson<br \/>\nbecame only the third left-hander to win the Masters with a<br \/>\ngripping playoff victory over South African Louis Oosthuizen at<br \/>\nAugusta National on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Watson clinched his first major title with a par on the<br \/>\nsecond extra hole, the par-four 10th, where Oosthuizen bogeyed<br \/>\nafter ending up just short of the green in two and failing to<br \/>\nget up and down.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The duo had finished the regulation 72 holes on 10-under-par<br \/>\n278, Oosthuizen recording a rare albatross at the second on the<br \/>\nway to a three-under 69 and Watson closing with a 68.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It was the fourth playoff at Augusta National in the last 10<br \/>\nyears and the first since Argentina&#8217;s Angel Cabrera edged out<br \/>\nAmerican Chad Campbell and Kenny Perry in 2009.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Mark Lamport-Stokes; Editing by Julian Linden)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Adds detail) By Mark Lamport-Stokes AUGUSTA, Georgia, April 8 (Reuters) &#8211; American Bubba Watson became only the third left-hander to win the Masters with a gripping playoff victory over South African Louis Oosthuizen at Augusta National on Sunday. Watson clinched his first major title with a par on the second extra hole, the par-four 10th, [&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-9752","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\/9752","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=9752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}