{"id":45451,"date":"2018-06-16T01:16:10","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T23:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/06\/16\/dustin-johnson-leads-us-open-but-rose-poulter-and-fleetwood-stay-in-touch\/"},"modified":"2018-06-16T01:16:10","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T23:16:10","slug":"dustin-johnson-leads-us-open-but-rose-poulter-and-fleetwood-stay-in-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=45451","title":{"rendered":"Dustin Johnson leads US Open but Rose, Poulter and Fleetwood stay in touch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 American world No1 holds five-shot lead over Englishmen\u2022 Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy fail to make the cutIn what is not typically a tribal environment the United States Golf Association may well place full support behind Dustin Johnson. As debate once again rages regarding the attritional nature of the US Open, the tournament\u2019s organisers could be afforded the perfect response.Johnson entered this major as the top-ranked player in the world and fresh from success in last weekend\u2019s St Jude Classic. Should a golfer of this standing win what would be a second US Open, there can be little external complaint. Though there is still half of the tournament to be played, Johnson\u2019s touch suggests he is in the mood for a procession \u2013 that is, another one. Last Sunday he won by six shots. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2018\/jun\/15\/dustin-johnson-us-open-justin-rose-in-touch\" target=\"_blank\">Dustin Johnson leads US Open but Rose, Poulter and Fleetwood stay in touch<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 American world No1 holds five-shot lead over Englishmen\u2022 Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy fail to make the cutIn what is not typically a tribal environment the United States Golf Association may well place full support behind Dustin Johnson. As debate once again rages regarding the attritional nature of the [&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-45451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45451","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=45451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}