{"id":40999,"date":"2018-05-14T01:15:53","date_gmt":"2018-05-13T23:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/05\/14\/webb-simpson-wins-players-championship-as-tiger-woods-charge-stalls\/"},"modified":"2018-05-14T01:15:53","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T23:15:53","slug":"webb-simpson-wins-players-championship-as-tiger-woods-charge-stalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=40999","title":{"rendered":"Webb Simpson wins Players Championship as Tiger Woods\u2019 charge stalls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 2012 US Open champion wins by four shots\u2022 Closing 73 enough to secure a fifth PGA Tour titleIt is fair to assume Webb Simpson did not spend much time looking in his rear-view mirror. Had he done so, the image of a galloping Tiger Woods might have been sufficient to trigger Players Championship capitulation.There was no such painful tumble for Simpson, who secured his first PGA Tour success since 2013. A closing 73 was sufficient to take the trophy by four, at 18 under par. Charl Schwartzel, Jimmy Walker and Xander Schauffele shared second. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2018\/may\/13\/webb-simpson-players-championship-first-title-five-years\" target=\"_blank\">Webb Simpson wins Players Championship as Tiger Woods\u2019 charge stalls<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 2012 US Open champion wins by four shots\u2022 Closing 73 enough to secure a fifth PGA Tour titleIt is fair to assume Webb Simpson did not spend much time looking in his rear-view mirror. Had he done so, the image of a galloping Tiger Woods might have been sufficient [&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-40999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40999","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=40999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}