{"id":141926,"date":"2017-01-10T14:31:32","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T12:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/141926\/what-will-be-rorys-story-at-the-bmw-sa-open\/"},"modified":"2017-01-10T16:27:18","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T14:27:18","slug":"what-will-be-rorys-story-at-the-bmw-sa-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2017\/01\/10\/what-will-be-rorys-story-at-the-bmw-sa-open\/","title":{"rendered":"What will be Rory\u2019s story at the BMW SA Open?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Irishman is the only player in the world\u2019s Top 45 in the field and will be the heavy favourite.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old will be making his third appearance at the SA Open, which is the second oldest golf event in the world after the Open Championship.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The golf star played in the 2008 and 2009 season\u2019s staging of the SA Open.<\/p>\n<p>In his first appearance on local soil he missed the cut, but finished tied third in 2009 alongside \u2018The Big Easy\u2019.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>His biggest competition will come in the form of defending champion Brandon Stone.<\/p>\n<p>Stone followed his maiden European Tour success in his home open with his second victory at the Alfred Dunhill Championship at Leopard Creek in December.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, McIlroy has been enjoying his time in South Africa and Tweeted this after some time at private game reserve:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We&#39;ve had a trip of a lifetime to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/londolozi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@londolozi<\/a> over the last few days. This big guy came to say hello last night!! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VrjsTGjEum\">pic.twitter.com\/VrjsTGjEum<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Rory McIlroy (@McIlroyRory) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/McIlroyRory\/status\/818298766956576768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 9, 2017<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>WATCH him have a go today on the 17<sup>th<\/sup> hole at Glendower:<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t<div id='fb-root'><\/div>\n\t\t\t<script>\n\t\t\t\t(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = '\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.3'; js.async='async'; js.defer='defer';  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n\t\t\t<\/script>\n\t\t\t<div class='fb-video' data-allowfullscreen='true' data-href='https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/video.php?v=1344208302267362'>\n\t\t\t\t<div class='fb-xfbml-parse-ignore'><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>WATCH his Pro-Am post-round interview from today:<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t<div id='fb-root'><\/div>\n\t\t\t<script>\n\t\t\t\t(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = '\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.3'; js.async='async'; js.defer='defer';  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n\t\t\t<\/script>\n\t\t\t<div class='fb-video' data-allowfullscreen='true' data-href='https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/video.php?v=1344240952264097'>\n\t\t\t\t<div class='fb-xfbml-parse-ignore'><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Check him and all the other golfers out at the BMW SA Open from Thursday, January 12 to Sunday, January 15.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Stay with our websites for all the results from the various rounds.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='f6949c85f77624307d8baac6cbe28c6c'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wold number two ranked golfer Rory McIlroy tested out the tee boxes, fairways and greens of the pristine Glendower Golf Course today and is tipped by player-host Ernie Els as the \u201cman to beat\u201d at this year\u2019s open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":141927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[13369,6228,13120,1416,13370,1119,13371],"class_list":["post-141926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-2017-bmw-sa-open-championship","tag-ernie-els","tag-glendower-golf-course-bmw-sa-open-championship","tag-golf","tag-rory-mcilroy","tag-sport-2","tag-sunshine-tour"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["2017 BMW SA Open Championship","ernie els","Glendower Golf Course BMW SA Open Championship","golf","Rory McIlroy","sport","Sunshine Tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}