{"id":321079,"date":"2011-03-18T22:59:28","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T22:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/18\/garcia-in-contention-in-florida\/"},"modified":"2011-03-18T22:59:28","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T22:59:28","slug":"garcia-in-contention-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/18\/garcia-in-contention-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Garcia in contention in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div>\n                        <!-- S BO --><\/p>\n<p><span><b>Leaderboard:<\/b><b> -9<\/b> G Willis (US), C Couch (US) <b>-8<\/b> S Garcia (Sp), W Simpson (US)<b>-7<\/b> B De Jonge (SA), M Turnesa (US), J Rose (Eng), R Thatcher (US), G Woodland (US), P Casey (Eng)<b> Selected others: -4<\/b> M Kaymer (Ger)<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><!-- S IIMA --><\/p>\n<div readability=\"7\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ae381c14011560633-1.jpg.jpg\" width=\"466\" height=\"282\" alt=\"Sergio Garcia in action at the Transitions Championship\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Spaniard Garcia climbed up the leaderboard after carding a 66<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Sergio Garcia moved up to second place at the Transitions Championship in Innisbrook, Florida after carding a second round of 66.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard struck five birdies to sit eight under, one shot behind leaders Garrett Willis and Chris Couch. <\/p>\n<p>American Webb Simpson is also on eight under after a second successive 67. <\/p>\n<p>Justin Rose shot 65 to join fellow Englishman Paul Casey and several other players on seven under, while world number one Martin Kaymer is four under. <\/p>\n<p><!-- E SF --><\/p>\n<p>Casey fired a seven-under-par 64 to grab a two-stroke lead at the end of the first round but could only manage a par 71 on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Garcia, playing in his first PGA Tour event in seven months, has yet to hit a bogey this week. <\/p>\n<p><!-- E BO --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ae381c14011560633-1.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/-\/sport1\/hi\/golf\/9429660.stm\" title=\"Garcia in contention in Florida\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Garcia in contention in Florida<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Leaderboard: -9 G Willis (US), C Couch (US) -8 S Garcia (Sp), W Simpson (US) -7 B De Jonge (SA), M Turnesa (US), J Rose (Eng), R Thatcher (US), G Woodland (US), P Casey (Eng) Selected others: -4 M Kaymer (Ger) Spaniard Garcia climbed up the leaderboard after carding a 66 Sergio Garcia moved up to second place at the Transitions Championship in Innisbrook, Florida after carding a second round of 66. The Spaniard struck five birdies to sit eight under, one shot behind leaders Garrett Willis and Chris Couch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Garcia in contention in Florida - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/18\/garcia-in-contention-in-florida\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Garcia in contention in Florida - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Leaderboard: -9 G Willis (US), C Couch (US) -8 S Garcia (Sp), W Simpson (US) -7 B De Jonge (SA), M Turnesa (US), J Rose (Eng), R Thatcher (US), G Woodland (US), P Casey (Eng) Selected others: -4 M Kaymer (Ger) Spaniard Garcia climbed up the leaderboard after carding a 66 Sergio Garcia moved up to second place at the Transitions Championship in Innisbrook, Florida after carding a second round of 66. 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