{"id":21044,"date":"2015-05-11T08:41:06","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T08:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/fowler-wins-fifth-big-one-over-sergio-and-kisner-in-playoffs\/"},"modified":"2015-05-11T08:41:06","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T08:41:06","slug":"fowler-wins-fifth-big-one-over-sergio-and-kisner-in-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/fowler-wins-fifth-big-one-over-sergio-and-kisner-in-playoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Fowler wins ‘fifth big one’ over Sergio and Kisner in playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"

American Rickie Fowler has won The Players Championship, considered \u2018the fifth major\u2019, by beating Sergio Garcia and compatriot Kevin Kisner in the playoff. \u201cThis is a great win,\u201d Fowler said of the second title of his career and the most important. <\/p>\n

The three players played three playoff holes after finishing the four rounds at 12 under par. Garcia was out of contention and the tie between Fowler and Kisner continued, forcing an extra hole, which Fowler won. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a very consistent week,\u201d said Garcia, pleased with a year in which he is playing well despite the wins not coming. \u201cAt least I had a chance (to win). It\u2019s been another great week, I can\u2019t complain, I see a lot of positives,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n

The world number one, Northern Ireland\u2019s Rory McIlroy, finished four strokes behind the leading trio. Much farther behind finished the American Tiger Woods, former world number one, who closed today with a card of 72 strokes for a total of three over par of the course, at the bottom of the standings. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere was everything this week. A lot of really good things, some mediocre and some bad,\u201d the champion of 14 majors told the local media. At the TPC Sawgrass course, where he won in 2001 and 2013, he played his second tournament after his self-imposed break to get his game back on track. <\/p>\n

Woods again completed four rounds for the second consecutive tournament, something he had not done since 2013. However, he again showed problems with his short game and totaled five double-bogeys, something that had happened to him on only four other occasions, all in 2011. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think I\u2019m closer,\u201d he said of his swing, also revamped thanks to his work with consultant Chris Como. \u201cWe\u2019re going in the right direction, I feel more comfortable,\u201d he added, confident that in the end the changes will pay off. <\/p>\n

In three weeks he wants to compete at The Memorial at Muirfield Village, where he has won five times. \u201cAbsolutely,\u201d he said when asked if the changes will have him fighting for wins soon. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

American Rickie Fowler has won The Players Championship, considered \u2018the fifth major\u2019, by beating Sergio Garcia and compatriot Kevin Kisner in the playoff. \u201cThis is a great win,\u201d Fowler said of the second title of his career and the most important. The three players played three playoff holes after finishing the four rounds at 12 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}