{"id":407075,"date":"2011-04-29T09:51:21","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T09:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/29\/westwood-recovers-rumford-leads-in-south-korea-ap\/"},"modified":"2011-04-29T09:51:21","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T09:51:21","slug":"westwood-recovers-rumford-leads-in-south-korea-ap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/29\/westwood-recovers-rumford-leads-in-south-korea-ap\/","title":{"rendered":"Westwood recovers, Rumford leads in South Korea (AP)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"78.8211033744\">\n<p>SEOUL, South Korea (AP)\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/pga\/players\/302\/\">Lee Westwood<\/a> bounced back from a disappointing first round to post a 4-under 68 at the Ballantine\u2019s Championship on Friday, but the world\u2019s top-ranked player remains six strokes off the lead.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Rumford is out in front on 10 under after shooting a second-round 63. The Australian is three strokes clear of <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/pga\/players\/553\/\">Miguel Angel Jimenez<\/a> of Spain and <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/pga\/players\/661\/\">Soren Kjeldsen<\/a> of Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast to the first day, when a final-hole double bogey sent Westwood tumbling down the leaderboard at the Blackstone Golf Club at Icheon, just south of Seoul, the Englishman ended a solid round with a birdie for a total of 140.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the cloudy conditions, it could have been better still as Westwood, who returned to No. 1 last weekend after winning the Indonesian Masters, collected three bogeys.<\/p>\n<p>Rumford started the day 1 under but nine birdies put him ahead at the halfway stage<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI struck a little bit of magic out there today and it\u2019s great to have these shots up your sleeve going into the weekend,\u201d said Rumford, who finished runner-up at the tournament in 2010. \u201cI had seven weeks off before playing in Malaysia and China the past two weeks, so I\u2019m happy about today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With rain forecast for the weekend, Rumford was hoping that he can hold on to his lead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe more shots up your sleeve the better going into the weekend\u2014if the forecast is bad it\u2019s going to play very, very tricky,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Kjeldsen carded a 66 to move to a 7-under total of 137, while Jimenez added a 67 to his first-round 70. Welshman <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/pga\/players\/9164\/\">Rhys Davies<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/pga\/players\/8491\/\">James Morrison<\/a> of England and first-round leader <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/pga\/players\/2392\/\">Damien McGrane<\/a> of Ireland were a shot back on 6 under.<\/p>\n<p>Three-time major winner <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/pga\/players\/15\/\">Ernie Els<\/a> is in danger of missing the cut after a second-round 73 left him at 2 over.<\/p>\n<p>The $2.8 million tournament is co-sanctioned by the Asian tour, the European tour and the Korea PGA.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/a5c34478allantine_s.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>View original post here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/sports\/rss\/golf\/SIG=11otl7mm1\/*http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/pga\/news?slug=ap-ballantines\" title=\"Westwood recovers, Rumford leads in South Korea (AP)\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Westwood recovers, Rumford leads in South Korea (AP)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> SEOUL, South Korea (AP)\u2014 Lee Westwood bounced back from a disappointing first round to post a 4-under 68 at the Ballantine\u2019s Championship on Friday, but the world\u2019s top-ranked player remains six strokes off the lead. Ben Rumford is out in front on 10 under after shooting a second-round 63<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":400668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-407075","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 v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Westwood recovers, Rumford leads in South Korea (AP) - 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\/29\/westwood-recovers-rumford-leads-in-south-korea-ap\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Westwood recovers, Rumford leads in South Korea (AP) - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"SEOUL, South Korea (AP)\u2014 Lee Westwood bounced back from a disappointing first round to post a 4-under 68 at the Ballantine\u2019s Championship on Friday, but the world\u2019s top-ranked player remains six strokes off the lead. 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