{"id":2231,"date":"2017-08-13T02:08:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T00:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/08\/13\/kevin-kisner-leads-us-pga-but-players-make-hard-work-on-day-three\/"},"modified":"2017-08-13T02:08:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T00:08:00","slug":"kevin-kisner-leads-us-pga-but-players-make-hard-work-on-day-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=2231","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Kisner leads US PGA but players make hard work on day three"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Chris Stroud and Hideki Matsuyama one shot behind Kevin Kisner\u2022 Struggles illustrated by lack of a single birdie at 1st hole on SaturdayThe 99th playing of the US PGA Championship has sporting parallels. There is, for example, the grim scoreless draw that football hipsters insist is wonderfully entertaining on grounds of defensive performance. Factor in a dour five-day cricket Test that ends without a winner and a fuller picture can be drawn.Somebody will prevail at this major \u2013 eventually \u2013 but the event has already triggered a debate. Those seeking spine-tingling entertainment need look elsewhere. On a tense third day, during which standing still was valuable to many of those in the upper echelons of the leaderboard, golf purists insisted this is what major championship play should be all about. It is, though, a hard sell. The margin between good and bad shots has at times been impossible to decipher. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2017\/aug\/13\/kevin-kisner-leads-us-pga-chris-stroud-hideki-matsuyama\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Kisner leads US PGA but players make hard work on day three<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Chris Stroud and Hideki Matsuyama one shot behind Kevin Kisner\u2022 Struggles illustrated by lack of a single birdie at 1st hole on SaturdayThe 99th playing of the US PGA Championship has sporting parallels. There is, for example, the grim scoreless draw that football hipsters insist is wonderfully entertaining on [&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-2231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231","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=2231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}