{"id":156952,"date":"2017-02-12T21:34:47","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T19:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=156952"},"modified":"2017-02-12T21:36:07","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T19:36:07","slug":"donald-trump-plays-a-round-of-golf-with-ernie-els","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/156952\/donald-trump-plays-a-round-of-golf-with-ernie-els\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump plays a round of golf with Ernie Els"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four-time majors champion Ernie Els joined US President Donald Trump, and\u00a0Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for a round of golf at Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Florida, on the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The South African, a former world number one, has his <span id=\"article-text\">primary residence in south Florida.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"article-text\">Reporters were banned from the course as the three shared a round together. Abe was in the US this week to <span class=\"st\">strengthen relations between the two countries.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\" target=\"_blank\">Trump<\/a> said in a tweet on Saturday evening: <em>Played golf today with Prime Minister Abe of Japan and @TheBig_Easy, Ernie Els, and had a great time. Japan is very well represented!<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">In January, Els took to Twitter\u00a0 to congratulate Trump following his inauguration, tweeting:\u00a0<em>\u201cCongrats President Trump!!! Good Vibrations @realDonaldTrump.\u201d<\/em><\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/144199\/this-south-african-is-one-of-only-41-people-donald-trump-follows-on-twitter\/\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump only follows 41 people on Twitter \u2013 including this South African<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four-time majors champion Ernie Els joined US President Donald Trump, and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for a round of golf at Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Florida, on the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":156954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-156952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156952"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156960,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156952\/revisions\/156960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}