{"id":9768,"date":"2012-04-09T16:03:09","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T14:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/golf-masters-showing-gives-hanson-reason-for-optimism\/"},"modified":"2012-04-09T16:03:09","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T14:03:09","slug":"golf-masters-showing-gives-hanson-reason-for-optimism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/golf-masters-showing-gives-hanson-reason-for-optimism\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf-Masters showing gives Hanson reason for optimism"},"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; Peter Hanson was<br \/>\nliving every golfer&#8217;s dream at the Masters on Sunday. It just<br \/>\ndid not end the way the Swede wanted.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>He was playing in the final group alongside Phil Mickelson<br \/>\nin front of the biggest and loudest galleries at Augusta<br \/>\nNational.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Despite leading the championship by a stroke after the third<br \/>\nround, he was not the favourite for the simple reason that he<br \/>\nhad never won a major before.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>And he did not win. He finished with a 73 to end up in a<br \/>\nfour-way tie for third, two shots behind winner Bubba Watson and<br \/>\nLouis Oosthuizen.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A day earlier, he had shot a 65. Had he done that again he<br \/>\nwould have won the green jacket but the final round of the<br \/>\nMasters is when the pressure really tells.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Surrendering the lead after making bogey at the opening hole<br \/>\nand another at the third, he slipped further behind when he<br \/>\nshanked his tee shot at the par-three 12th, failing to even<br \/>\nreach the creek at Amen Corner.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a pretty tough day. I didn&#8217;t get it going very well<br \/>\non the front nine and started off with two early bogeys, which<br \/>\nis never a good thing,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The greens were a little bit quicker today and I think I<br \/>\nended up being too defensive with the putter.<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; Peter Hanson was living every golfer&#8217;s dream at the Masters on Sunday. It just did not end the way the Swede wanted. He was playing in the final group alongside Phil Mickelson in front of the biggest and loudest galleries at Augusta National. Despite leading 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-9768","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\/9768","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=9768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}