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Jason Day and Alex Noren had to return to Torrey Pines at 8.04am on Monday to complete their play-off for the Farmers Insurance Open title. The previous evening, darkness had descended as they walked off the green of their fifth sudden-death hole, forcing play to be suspended until the next morning – which also meant the weekly world rankings update was delayed for 24 hours. <\/p>\n
When the 30-year-old Australian quickly settled matters with a birdie on the sixth extra hole he was able to celebrate his 11th PGA Tour victory and first since the 2016 Players Championship, a significant step in his stated determination to return to the top echelons after an annus horribilis<\/em> in 2017 when his mother was recovering from lung cancer and his wife suffered a miscarriage.<\/p>\n A former world number one (for the first time, back in 2015), Day rose four places to 10th in the current rankings, as the top seven remained unchanged – including second-placed Jon Rahm, who was well on target to successfully defend his title in San Diego before falling back over the weekend to a share of 29th, eight shots behind the winner.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, for the benefit of those who have been on a mid-ocean tropical island with no internet connection this past month, we should mention that Tiger Woods made his long-awaited return to competition at Torrey Pines – with mixed results. His play was fairly erratic, saved by an excellent short game, but he still managed to finish the week three-under in joint 23rd place. That vaulted him from 647th to 539th in the rankings, the highest position in two years for someone who had been number one for a record 683 weeks during his prime, before injury and other issues derailed his progress. <\/p>\n Jason Day and Alex Noren had to return to Torrey Pines at 8.04am on Monday to complete their play-off for the Farmers Insurance Open title. The previous evening, darkness had descended as they walked off the green of their fifth sudden-death hole, forcing play to be suspended until the next morning – which also meant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22042","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\/22042","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=22042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.holaincompany.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/images_Jugadores_Rahm-en-Farmers.jpg\")
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