{"id":1060,"date":"2013-03-11T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/woods-closing-in-on-mcilroy-in-world-rankings\/"},"modified":"2013-03-11T14:15:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T14:15:00","slug":"woods-closing-in-on-mcilroy-in-world-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/woods-closing-in-on-mcilroy-in-world-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Woods closing in on McIlroy in world rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) &#8211; Tiger Woods won his 17th World Golf Championship title on Sunday and that helped him narrow the gap between he and No. 1 Rory McIlroy in this week&#8217;s world golf rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Woods, who trailed by 2.70 average points last week, closed within 0.99 average points of McIlroy with his victory Sunday at Doral.<\/p>\n<p>Following McIlroy and Woods, the next five were unchanged with No. 3 Luke Donald followed by Brandt Snedeker, Justin Rose, Louis Oosthuizen and Adam Scott.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Stricker took second behind Woods and improved five spots to No. 8. Matt Kuchar slipped one to ninth, while Phil Mickelson improved a pair to 10th.<\/p>\n<p>Lee Westwood, Ian Poulter and Bubba Watson all dropped two to 11th through 13th respectively. Keegan Bradley inched up one to 14 and Graeme McDowell climbed four to 15th.<\/p>\n<p>Charl Schwartzel dipped two to 16th and Sergio Garcia improved a notch to No. 17, while Jason Dufner and Webb Simpson both slid a pair to 18th and 19th. Peter Hanson and Dustin Johnson exchanged positions from last week, meaning Hanson rounded out the top 20 as Johnson dipped to 21st.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Brown won the opposite PGA Tour event in Puerto Rico and soared 131 places to No. 160 in the new rankings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) &#8211; Tiger Woods won his 17th World Golf Championship title on Sunday and that helped him narrow the gap between he and No. 1 Rory McIlroy in this week&#8217;s world golf rankings. Woods, who trailed by 2.70 average points last week, closed within 0.99 average points of McIlroy with his victory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}