{"id":1727,"date":"2007-04-02T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-02T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/columns\/hittin_the_links\/volume_ninety-two"},"modified":"2007-04-02T09:00:16","modified_gmt":"2007-04-02T13:00:16","slug":"volume_ninety-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/b\/hittin_the_links\/volume_ninety-two","title":{"rendered":"Volume Ninety-Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/b\/imgs\/hittin_the_links\/htl_title.gif\" height=\"79\" width=\"125\" alt=\"Hittin' the Links\" \/>The group of Adam Scott, Stuart Appleby, and Jeff Maggert looked like me and my playing buddies during the final round as, one after another, they deep-sixed their golf balls on #18.<\/p>\n<p>This week we have a recap of the Shell Houston Open, a meltdown at the Kraft Nabisco, and what Phil is serving for dinner at the Masters.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Hole 1: Great Scott!<\/strong><br \/>\nAdam Scott shot 65-66 over the weekend to out-duel fellow Aussie Stuart Appleby at the Shell Houston Open. Hey guys, there&#8217;s water left on #18. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pgatour.com\/2007\/tournaments\/r020\/04\/01\/shell040107.ap\/index.html\" title=\"Great Scott!\" class=\"external external_icon\">Link<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hole 2: Redstone Awaits<\/strong><br \/>\nRedstone Golf Club is home to the Shell Houston Open. For a cool $135, you can tee it up and see if you can dump one (or two) in the water on #18 just like the pros. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.redstonegolfclub.com\/golf\/proto\/redstonegolfclub\/course2\/course2.htm\" title=\"Redstone Awaits\" class=\"external external_icon\">Link<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hole 3: Meltdown<\/strong><br \/>\nUp three shots with four holes remaining Suzann Pettersen proceeded to have a meltdown of epic proportions and gave away the Kraft Nabisco Championship to Morgan Pressel who became the youngest winner of a major championship on the LPGA Tour. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.golf.com\/golf\/tours_news\/article\/0,28136,1605716,00.html\" title=\"Meltdown\" class=\"external external_icon\">Link<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hole 4: Burned Out<\/strong><br \/>\nBeth Ann Baldry wonders if Annika is burned out. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.golfweek.com\/ourtake\/324706124444746.php\" title=\"Burned Out\" class=\"external external_icon\">Link<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hole 5: WGC Fix<\/strong><br \/>\nSI&#8217;s Gary Van Sickle offers up some suggestions to make the World Golf Championships more worldly. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.golf.com\/golf\/tours_news\/article\/0,28136,1604540,00.html\" title=\"WGC Fix\" class=\"external external_icon\">Link<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hole 6: Sergio&#8217;s World<\/strong><br \/>\nMark Kreidler wonders a bit about Sergio&#8217;s career up to this point as well as his &#8220;mini-tantrums&#8221;. [<a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/golf\/columns\/story?columnist=kreidler_mark&amp;id=2814226\" title=\"Sergio's World\" class=\"external external_icon\">Link<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hole 7: The Last Caddy<\/strong><br \/>\nCarl Jackson has caddied at every Masters except one since 1961. [<a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/golf\/masters07\/news\/story?id=2815893\" title=\"The Last Caddy\" class=\"external external_icon\">Link<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hole 8: Masters Menu<\/strong><br \/>\nPhil&#8217;s doing a Southern theme for the Champions Dinner. The menu includes fried chicken, beef brisket and baby back ribs. I&#8217;m suddenly feeling hungry now. [<a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/golf\/masters07\/news\/story?id=2820288\" title=\"Masters Menu\" class=\"external external_icon\">Link<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hole 9: Houston Harmon<\/strong><br \/>\nLucas Glover talks about Dick Harmon and his influence on him and fellow golfers in the Houston area. [<a href=\"http:\/\/video.nbcsports.com\/player\/?id=87179\" title=\"Houston Harmon\" class=\"external external_icon\">Link<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 18th at Redstone claims a few more victims to it&#8217;s watery grave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hittin_the_links"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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