{"id":9825,"date":"2012-04-11T16:07:46","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T14:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/update-1-golf-long-flights-give-oosthuizen-time-to-reflect\/"},"modified":"2012-04-11T16:07:46","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T14:07:46","slug":"update-1-golf-long-flights-give-oosthuizen-time-to-reflect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-golf-long-flights-give-oosthuizen-time-to-reflect\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Golf-Long flights give Oosthuizen time to reflect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Flight time is thinking time for Oosthuizen<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Schwartzel kept Masters talk to a minimum<\/p>\n<p> (Adds details, quotes)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Patrick Johnston<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, April 11 (Reuters) &#8211; After playoff heartbreak<br \/>\nat the U.S. Masters, Louis Oosthuizen spent every minute of his<br \/>\nnear 30-hour journey to Malaysia thinking about what more he<br \/>\ncould have done at Augusta.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 2010 British Open champion lost on the second extra hole<br \/>\nto American Bubba Watson at the Masters late on Sunday before<br \/>\nmaking the lengthy journey across continents to compete in the<br \/>\nEuropean and Asian Tour co-sanctioned Malaysian Open.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>With his compatriot, friend and 2011 Masters champion Charl<br \/>\nSchwartzel alongside him, the weary South African said on<br \/>\nWednesday the long journey had allowed him time to reflect on<br \/>\nhis green jacket near miss.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every second on the flight I was thinking about what I<br \/>\nwould have done different,&#8221; the gap-toothed 29-year-old told<br \/>\nreporters while slumped on a sofa at the Kuala Lumpur Golf and<br \/>\nCountry Club.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I think there probably isn&#8217;t much I would have done<br \/>\ndifferent. I felt like I gave it my all, didn&#8217;t throw anything<br \/>\naway, played the best I probably could have coming down the<br \/>\nstretch in a major and I was outplayed.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Being that close to the green jacket is tough to get over<br \/>\nit immediately but I think time will heal it and it just gives<br \/>\nme a bit more confidence when I put it on eventually that I will<br \/>\nbe over it.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Flight time is thinking time for Oosthuizen * Schwartzel kept Masters talk to a minimum (Adds details, quotes) By Patrick Johnston KUALA LUMPUR, April 11 (Reuters) &#8211; After playoff heartbreak at the U.S. Masters, Louis Oosthuizen spent every minute of his near 30-hour journey to Malaysia thinking about what more he could have done [&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-9825","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\/9825","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=9825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}