{"id":405932,"date":"2011-04-28T22:59:05","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T22:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/28\/watson-leads-way-in-new-orleans\/"},"modified":"2011-04-28T22:59:05","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T22:59:05","slug":"watson-leads-way-in-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/28\/watson-leads-way-in-new-orleans\/","title":{"rendered":"Watson leads way in New Orleans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"60.3245539507\">\n<div readability=\"51\">\n<div>\n<h2>Classic of New Orleans first round leaderboard:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><em>-6:<\/em> B Watson (US)<\/li>\n<li><em>-5:<\/em> J Durrant (US), T Gainey (US), J Rollins (US), C Petterson (Swe)<\/li>\n<li><em>-4:<\/em> M Bettencourt (US), W Simpson (US), J Dufner (US), K.J. Choi (Kor), N O&#8217;Hern (Aus), M Jones (Aus), L Donald<\/li>\n<li><em>Selected others: -1:<\/em> B Davis (Eng)<\/li>\n<li><em>+1:<\/em> G McDowell (NI)<\/li>\n<li><em>+5:<\/em> J Rose (Eng)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/ccfe5598watson_226.jpg.jpg\" width=\"226\" height=\"170\" alt=\"Bubba Watson\" \/> Watson hit six birdies and one eagle in his opening round<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bubba Watson holds a one-shot lead after the opening round of the Classic of New Orleans with the American firing a 66 to end six under par.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Englishman Luke Donald is two shots behind the American on four under having shot a first-round score of 68.<\/p>\n<p>But Northern Ireland&#8217;s Graeme McDowell is on one over, while England&#8217;s Justin Rose ended the day five over par.<\/p>\n<p>There is a cluster of four players a shot behind Watson on five under including Sweden&#8217;s Carl Pettersson.<\/p>\n<p>Donald fired himself into contention thanks largely to two birdies on his final two holes in a round that included no bogeys.<\/p>\n<p>Watson, though, hit six birdies, one eagle and two bogeys to become the early man to catch.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/ccfe5598watson_226.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>View the original here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/-\/sport1\/hi\/golf\/13233522.stm\" title=\"Watson leads way in New Orleans\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watson leads way in New Orleans<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Classic of New Orleans first round leaderboard: -6: B Watson (US) -5: J Durrant (US), T Gainey (US), J Rollins (US), C Petterson (Swe) -4: M Bettencourt (US), W Simpson (US), J Dufner (US), K.J. Choi (Kor), N O&#8217;Hern (Aus), M Jones (Aus), L Donald Selected others: -1: B Davis (Eng) +1: G McDowell (NI) +5: J Rose (Eng) Watson hit six birdies and one eagle in his opening round Bubba Watson holds a one-shot lead after the opening round of the Classic of New Orleans with the American firing a 66 to end six under par<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":399936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-405932","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>Watson leads way in New Orleans - 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\/watson-leads-way-in-new-orleans\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Watson leads way in New Orleans - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Classic of New Orleans first round leaderboard: -6: B Watson (US) -5: J Durrant (US), T Gainey (US), J Rollins (US), C Petterson (Swe) -4: M Bettencourt (US), W Simpson (US), J Dufner (US), K.J. 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