{"id":920,"date":"2007-10-04T13:25:46","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T17:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/?p=920"},"modified":"2009-03-03T13:52:01","modified_gmt":"2009-03-03T17:52:01","slug":"valero-texas-open-round-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/valero-texas-open-round-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Valero Texas Open: Round One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Valero Texas Open begins today. The Texas Open has been played in San Antonio, TX since 1922, which makes San Antonio the longest running host city of any PGA Tour event.<\/p>\n<p>Colt Knost, who won this year\u2019s U.S. Amateur, is making his PGA Tour debut thanks to a sponsor\u2019s exemption. This guy turned down invites to three of next year\u2019s major championships to try to play his way onto the PGA Tour this fall.<\/p>\n<p>Other watchables include Texan (and Prince Andrew look-alike) Justin Leonard, John \u201cLong Ball\u201d Daly, the owner of the coolest name in golf, Spike McRoy, and one of my all-time favorite players, Corey Pavin.<\/p>\n<p>To the reader: Are you going to watch this week\u2019s Texas Open? Why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Valero Texas Open begins today. The Texas Open has been played in San Antonio, TX since 1922, which makes San Antonio the longest running host city of any PGA Tour event. Colt Knost, who won this year\u2019s U.S. Amateur, is making his PGA Tour debut thanks to a sponsor\u2019s exemption. This guy turned down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[737,738,1163,739,220,458,740],"class_list":["post-920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-golf","tag-colt-knost","tag-cory-pavin","tag-golf","tag-john-daly","tag-pga-tour","tag-texas","tag-valero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":921,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions\/921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}