{"id":7787,"date":"2013-11-11T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/els-wds-from-tigers-event-will-play-nedbank\/"},"modified":"2013-11-11T15:01:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T15:01:00","slug":"els-wds-from-tigers-event-will-play-nedbank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/els-wds-from-tigers-event-will-play-nedbank\/","title":{"rendered":"Els WD&#8217;s from Tiger&#8217;s event; will play Nedbank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Ernie Els opted to withdraw from Tiger Woods&#8217; World Challenge on Monday and will instead play the Nedbank Challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Els has never played in Woods&#8217; World Challenge. He will play for a record 17th time at the Nedbank Challenge.<\/p>\n<p>The Nedbank has increased its field to 30 players. Els has won that event three times and has won the most money in tournament history.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m really looking forward to coming back and playing such a special event. It was actually a family decision &#8211; Liezl, Samantha and Ben &#8211; are with me for a short while and it made a lot of sense to compete at Sun City,&#8221; said the South African Els.<\/p>\n<p>Woods, and new title sponsor Northwestern Mutual, moved quickly to replace Els with Dustin Johnson, who recently won the WGC &#8211; HSBC Champions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Ernie Els opted to withdraw from Tiger Woods&#8217; World Challenge on Monday and will instead play the Nedbank Challenge. Els has never played in Woods&#8217; World Challenge. He will play for a record 17th time at the Nedbank Challenge. The Nedbank has increased its field to 30 players. Els has won that event [&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-7787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7787","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=7787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}