{"id":413499,"date":"2011-05-01T23:17:31","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/01\/watson-wins-new-orleans-play-off\/"},"modified":"2011-05-01T23:17:31","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:17:31","slug":"watson-wins-new-orleans-play-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/01\/watson-wins-new-orleans-play-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Watson wins New Orleans play-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"55.425313569\">\n<div readability=\"44\">\n<div>\n<h2>Classic of New Orleans second round leaderboard:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><em>-15:<\/em> B Watson (US), W Simpson (US)<\/li>\n<li><em>-13:<\/em> J Dufner (US), KJ Choi (Kor), T Gainey (US)<\/li>\n<li><em>-12:<\/em> M Jones (Aus), G McNeill (US)<\/li>\n<li><em>Selected others: -10:<\/em> L Donald (Eng)<\/li>\n<li><em>-9:<\/em> S Stricker (US<\/li>\n<li><em>-1:<\/em> B Davis (Eng)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/0c1d82834_bubba_464.jpg.jpg\" width=\"464\" height=\"261\" alt=\"Bubba Watson\" \/> Watson won his second Tour victory of the season and will rise up the rankings<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Bubba Watson held his nerve to beat Webb Simpson in a play-off in the Zurich Classic in New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p>The two Americans, who were overnight leaders, carded final-round 69s to finish on 15 under par, two clear of three players on 13 under.<\/p>\n<p>Watson hit a remarkable approach from over 200 yards from a fairway bunker and two-putted for victory at the second extra hole.<\/p>\n<p>England&#8217;s Luke Donald fired a 69 to finish tied for eighth on 10 under par.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/0c1d82834_bubba_464.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read more here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/-\/sport1\/hi\/golf\/13254689.stm\" title=\"Watson wins New Orleans play-off\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watson wins New Orleans play-off<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Classic of New Orleans second round leaderboard: -15: B Watson (US), W Simpson (US) -13: J Dufner (US), KJ Choi (Kor), T Gainey (US) -12: M Jones (Aus), G McNeill (US) Selected others: -10: L Donald (Eng) -9: S Stricker (US -1: B Davis (Eng) Watson won his second Tour victory of the season and will rise up the rankings Bubba Watson held his nerve to beat Webb Simpson in a play-off in the Zurich Classic in New Orleans. The two Americans, who were overnight leaders, carded final-round 69s to finish on 15 under par, two clear of three players on 13 under. Watson hit a remarkable approach from over 200 yards from a fairway bunker and two-putted for victory at the second extra hole<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":413500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-413499","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 wins New Orleans play-off - 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\/05\/01\/watson-wins-new-orleans-play-off\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Watson wins New Orleans play-off - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Classic of New Orleans second round leaderboard: -15: B Watson (US), W Simpson (US) -13: J Dufner (US), KJ Choi (Kor), T Gainey (US) -12: M Jones (Aus), G McNeill (US) Selected others: -10: L Donald (Eng) -9: S Stricker (US -1: B Davis (Eng) Watson won his second Tour victory of the season and will rise up the rankings Bubba Watson held his nerve to beat Webb Simpson in a play-off in the Zurich Classic in New Orleans. 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