{"id":404342,"date":"2011-04-28T11:29:18","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T11:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/28\/poor-finish-hits-westwoods-hopes\/"},"modified":"2011-04-28T11:29:18","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T11:29:18","slug":"poor-finish-hits-westwoods-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/28\/poor-finish-hits-westwoods-hopes\/","title":{"rendered":"Poor finish hits Westwood&#8217;s hopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"75.7567276642\">\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><em>-6:<\/em> D McGrane (Ire)<\/li>\n<li><em>-5:<\/em> S-h Park (Kor), R Finch (Eng), F Aguilar<\/li>\n<li><em>-4:<\/em> R Ramsay (Sco), C Phadungsil (Tha)<\/li>\n<li><em>-3:<\/em> K-t Kim (Kor), C Del Moral (Sp), J Morrison (Eng), S-s Hong (Kor)<\/li>\n<li><em>Selected others: -2:<\/em> MA Jimenez (Sp)<\/li>\n<li><em>level:<\/em> L Westwood (Eng)<\/li>\n<li><em>+2:<\/em> I Poulter (Eng)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/4cf7fa02d_getty_466.jpg.jpg\" width=\"464\" height=\"261\" alt=\"Lee Westwood\" \/> Westwood birdied the 18th, fourth and fifth before his late slip<\/span><\/p>\n<p>World number one Lee Westwood had a costly finish to his opening round at the Ballantine&#8217;s Championship in Icheon, South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>The 38-year-old, who regained his world number one spot after <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport2\/hi\/golf\/13180346.stm\" title=\"Westwood regains number one spot\">winning the Indonesian Masters<\/a> last week, dropped three shots in his final three holes.<\/p>\n<p>It resulted in a level par round of 72 and left him six shots behind first-day leader, Irishman Damien McGrane.<\/p>\n<p>McGrane had four birdies on each nine to lead a group of three by one shot.<\/p>\n<p>Westwood began his first round at the Blackstone Golf Club from the 10th tee and was progressing smoothly at three under when he took four at the 238-yard par-three seventh, finding a greenside trap after being distracted mid-swing by a camera in the gallery.<\/p>\n<p>Worse followed at the ninth, a 425-yard par four, when he made a six after pulling his tee shot.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Poulter also started from the 10th and began in atrocious fashion with consecutive double bogeys.<\/p>\n<p>The world number 17 also collected an eagle at the first before dropping a shot at the next in a 74.<\/p>\n<p>Englishman Richard Finch, the world number 226 who carded a 64 in the final round to finish 10th at the recent China Open, shares second after a bogey-free 67.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old, who won the 2008 Irish Open, is a shot clear of Scotsman Richie Ramsay, who had a mixture of four birdies and two bogeys in six holes on his front nine.<\/p>\n<p>Miguel Angel Jimenez missed a three foot eagle chance and returned a 70, while Ernie Els, now ranked 15th, began quietly with a 73.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Continued here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/-\/sport1\/hi\/golf\/13221962.stm\" title=\"Poor finish hits Westwood's hopes\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Poor finish hits Westwood&#8217;s hopes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> -6: D McGrane (Ire) -5: S-h Park (Kor), R Finch (Eng), F Aguilar -4: R Ramsay (Sco), C Phadungsil (Tha) -3: K-t Kim (Kor), C Del Moral (Sp), J Morrison (Eng), S-s Hong (Kor) Selected others: -2: MA Jimenez (Sp) level: L Westwood (Eng) +2: I Poulter (Eng) Westwood birdied the 18th, fourth and fifth before his late slip World number one Lee Westwood had a costly finish to his opening round at the Ballantine&#8217;s Championship in Icheon, South Korea. The 38-year-old, who regained his world number one spot after winning the Indonesian Masters last week, dropped three shots in his final three holes. It resulted in a level par round of 72 and left him six shots behind first-day leader, Irishman Damien McGrane<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":399656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-404342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Poor finish hits Westwood&#039;s hopes - 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\/04\/28\/poor-finish-hits-westwoods-hopes\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Poor finish hits Westwood&#039;s hopes - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"-6: D McGrane (Ire) -5: S-h Park (Kor), R Finch (Eng), F Aguilar -4: R Ramsay (Sco), C Phadungsil (Tha) -3: K-t Kim (Kor), C Del Moral (Sp), J Morrison (Eng), S-s Hong (Kor) Selected others: -2: MA Jimenez (Sp) level: L Westwood (Eng) +2: I Poulter (Eng) Westwood birdied the 18th, fourth and fifth before his late slip World number one Lee Westwood had a costly finish to his opening round at the Ballantine&#039;s Championship in Icheon, South Korea. 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