{"id":17425,"date":"2014-04-13T17:54:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-13T17:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/scott-closes-title-defense-with-a-72\/"},"modified":"2014-04-13T17:54:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-13T17:54:00","slug":"scott-closes-title-defense-with-a-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/scott-closes-title-defense-with-a-72\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott closes title defense with a 72"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Augusta, GA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Adam Scott wrapped up his title defense on Sunday with an even-par 72 to finish the 78th Masters at 1-over-par 289.<\/p>\n<p>Scott was tied for 15th place when he finished. That would be the best finish in a title defense since Tiger Woods took third in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian stumbled to bogeys at two and three to slide to plus-3. After three pars in a row, Scott poured in three consecutive birdies from the seventh to jump to even-par.<\/p>\n<p>Scott bogeyed the tough par-4 11th to fall back to plus-1. He wrapped birdies on the 13th and 15th around a bogey on No. 14. Scott stumbled to a bogey on 17 to dip back to plus-1.<\/p>\n<p>He closed out his title defense by draining a long par putt.<\/p>\n<p>Since Woods&#8217;s title defense in 2006, the defending champion had three top-20 finishes &#8211; Angel Cabrera tied for 18th in 2010, while Trevor Immelman and Zach Johnson in 2008 and 2009 both tied for 20th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Augusta, GA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Adam Scott wrapped up his title defense on Sunday with an even-par 72 to finish the 78th Masters at 1-over-par 289. Scott was tied for 15th place when he finished. That would be the best finish in a title defense since Tiger Woods took third in 2006. The Australian stumbled to [&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-17425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17425","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=17425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}