{"id":9953,"date":"2012-04-15T16:14:24","date_gmt":"2012-04-15T14:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/update-2-golf-oosthuizen-bounces-back-in-malaysia\/"},"modified":"2012-04-15T16:14:24","modified_gmt":"2012-04-15T14:14:24","slug":"update-2-golf-oosthuizen-bounces-back-in-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-2-golf-oosthuizen-bounces-back-in-malaysia\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2-Golf-Oosthuizen bounces back in Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* South African wins fifth European Tour title<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Scotland&#8217;s Gallacher finishes second<\/p>\n<p> (Adds quotes, details)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">April 15<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Louis Oosthuizen drove away mental and<br \/>\nphysical fatigue to bounce back from last week&#8217;s U.S. Masters<br \/>\nheartbreak and romp to a three-stroke win in the rain-hit<br \/>\nMalaysian Open in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The South African, who finished runner-up in the Masters to<br \/>\nAmerican Bubba Watson in a playoff, registered a total of<br \/>\n17-under 271, three ahead of Britain&#8217;s Stephen Gallacher.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 2010 British Open champion, who made a 30-hour journey<br \/>\nfrom Augusta National to take part in the $2.5 million event in<br \/>\nthe Malaysian capital, fired a four-under 68 in the final round<br \/>\nto win his fifth European Tour title.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It would have been better if I had the green jacket,&#8221; said<br \/>\nOosthuizen, whose daughter rushed out to congratulate him after<br \/>\nthe win, with a laugh.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought I was going to be a lot more tired. It was a long<br \/>\njourney to get here and I have to be honest and say that I<br \/>\ndidn&#8217;t expect to play this well because of the tiredness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Having the family around in the Malaysian capital meant he<br \/>\ngot little sleep and struggled to get over the jetlag, but on<br \/>\nSunday he was not complaining.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The one thing I did know was that the game was there so<br \/>\nthat helped a lot,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* South African wins fifth European Tour title * Scotland&#8217;s Gallacher finishes second (Adds quotes, details) April 15 (Reuters) &#8211; Louis Oosthuizen drove away mental and physical fatigue to bounce back from last week&#8217;s U.S. Masters heartbreak and romp to a three-stroke win in the rain-hit Malaysian Open in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday. The South [&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-9953","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\/9953","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=9953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}