{"id":142295,"date":"2017-01-14T17:25:48","date_gmt":"2017-01-14T15:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/142295\/mcilroy-is-a-storm-chaser-after-round-three-of-the-bmw-sa-open\/"},"modified":"2017-01-14T17:25:48","modified_gmt":"2017-01-14T15:25:48","slug":"mcilroy-is-a-storm-chaser-after-round-three-of-the-bmw-sa-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2017\/01\/14\/mcilroy-is-a-storm-chaser-after-round-three-of-the-bmw-sa-open\/","title":{"rendered":"McIlroy is a Storm chaser after round three of the BMW SA Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Irishman will, on the final day, need to weather the challenge posed by tournament leader Graeme Storm who leads by three shots after he extended his bogey-free run at the SA Open to 41 holes with a score of 67 that moved him to 17-under.<\/p>\n<p>The Englishman has a healthy advantage over the tournament favourite, but the popular McIlroy (14-under) will not back down without a fight.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>He has made 12 birdies on the back nine this week, which could set up an entertaining display of golf down the final stretch tomorrow (Sunday).<\/p>\n<p>For full results visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunshinetour.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.sunshinetour.com<\/a>.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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='e80b5248417bc61216762399cd942429'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second highest ranked golfer in the world Rory McIlroy played through back pain, which almost forced his withdrawal from the BMW SA Open, to finish round three of the event in second position at Glendower Golf Club in Edenvale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":142296,"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":[13369,2501,1881,13434,2084,1416,13370,1119,13371],"class_list":["post-142295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-2017-bmw-sa-open-championship","tag-city-of-ekurhuleni","tag-edenvale","tag-european-tour","tag-glendower-golf-club","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","city of ekurhuleni","edenvale","European Tour","Glendower Golf Club","golf","Rory McIlroy","sport","Sunshine Tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142295","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=142295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}