{"id":549,"date":"2010-04-07T15:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T15:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=549"},"modified":"2014-03-10T21:50:05","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T21:50:05","slug":"masters-musings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/masters-musings\/","title":{"rendered":"Masters Musings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masters.com\/index.html\">Masters<\/a> will begin tomorrow, the first men\u2019s major of the season, although why it\u2019s a major escapes me, because it\u2019s not the championship of anything. Kind of like the Kraft Nabisco on the LPGA circuit.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m picking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pgatour.com\/players\/02\/12\/09\/\">Sergio Garcia<\/a> to win this year. It\u2019s about time for him to win his major, so let\u2019s get it done. Since you can\u2019t win the Masters without putting the lights out, a win here would be a big monkey off his back.<\/p>\n<p>My other favorite is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pgatour.com\/players\/02\/36\/21\/\">Rory Sabbatini<\/a>. He does things for people behind the scenes that are exemplary. He should be rewarded for that with a big win.<\/p>\n<p>Were I the defending champion, I would select this menu for the past champions dinner:<\/p>\n<p>Potato-leek soup<br \/>The romaine salad they serve in the restaurant of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ogagolfcourse.com\/golf\/proto\/ogagolfcourse\/\">OGA course<\/a> in Woodburn, Oregon<br \/>Spring chinook salmon (you have never tasted fish this good)<br \/>Polenta<br \/>Green beans<br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Reine de Saba<\/span> cake (see Julia, volume 1, page 677)<br \/>Wine by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stinnocentwine.com\/NewFiles\/home.html\">St. Innocen<\/a>t of Salem, Oregon<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s eat, let\u2019s play.<\/p>\n<p>See more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bettergolfbook.com\/\">www.bettergolfbook.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Masters will begin tomorrow, the first men\u2019s major of the season, although why it\u2019s a major escapes me, because it\u2019s not the championship of anything. Kind of like the Kraft Nabisco on the LPGA circuit. I\u2019m picking Sergio Garcia to win this year. It\u2019s about time for him to win his major, so let\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/masters-musings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Masters Musings<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tournaments"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-8R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}