{"id":107348,"date":"2019-08-25T00:49:10","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T22:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/08\/25\/lightning-strikes-tour-championship-and-leaves-six-spectators-in-hospital\/"},"modified":"2019-08-25T00:49:10","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T22:49:10","slug":"lightning-strikes-tour-championship-and-leaves-six-spectators-in-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=107348","title":{"rendered":"Lightning strikes Tour Championship and leaves six spectators in hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Panic spreads across East Lake golf course after play suspended\u2022 Thomas leads McIlroy and Koepka by one shotSix spectators were taken to hospital in Atlanta after lightning struck East Lake Golf Club, shortly after play had been suspended in the third round of the Tour Championship. The PGA Tour confirmed later in the day that \u201ctheir injuries do not appear to be life threatening\u201d but a marquee golf event had already been overshadowed by a scene involving sirens and brief panic.Players had been removed from the course at 4.17pm with lightning in the vicinity. As is typical, spectators generally remained on the grounds. A Tour statement explained what transpired next. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2019\/aug\/24\/lightning-tour-championship-golf-spectators-hospital-east-lake\" target=\"_blank\">Lightning strikes Tour Championship and leaves six spectators in hospital<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Panic spreads across East Lake golf course after play suspended\u2022 Thomas leads McIlroy and Koepka by one shotSix spectators were taken to hospital in Atlanta after lightning struck East Lake Golf Club, shortly after play had been suspended in the third round of the Tour Championship. The PGA Tour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}