{"id":20,"date":"2004-09-03T05:10:05","date_gmt":"2004-09-03T10:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/uncategorized\/omega_european_masters\/"},"modified":"2004-09-03T05:10:05","modified_gmt":"2004-09-03T10:10:05","slug":"omega_european_masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/b\/other\/omega_european_masters","title":{"rendered":"Omega European Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Omega European Masters got underway yesterday at that-course-in-the-Swiss-Alps-which-is-actually-a-ski-slope-seven-months-of-the-year, otherwise known as Crans-sur-Sierre.<\/p>\n<p>Some notes about the event:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The course is 1,500 metres above sea level, so the ball carries about 10% further than normal. The caddies will be working extra hard on their math this week.<\/li>\n<li>Seve Ballesteros altered\/remodelled\/butchered the course in 1997, supposedly to make it &#8220;tougher&#8221; for the professionals and limit low scoring, like Colin Montgomerie&#8217;s -24 mark in 1996. What did he do? Well, first of all, he turned a short par 4 into a long par 3. Genius! There&#8217;s one shot per round saved already! He also remodelled all the putting surfaces, to make them not so much upturned saucers as upturned teacups. Now, if my career was flagging, and all I had left was a stellar short game and a #1 ranked touch on the greens, what would I do to improve my chances of winning? (It didn&#8217;t work.)<\/li>\n<li>The winner not only gets a nice pay cheque and a shiny trophy, but also a rather fetching red blazer&hellip; sorry, jacket. Almost makes you want to be a pro, don&#8217;t it? Well, if it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/66.102.11.104\/search?q=cache:jlVJo19OI_MJ:galleries.news24.com\/daily\/20030907\/17.asp+european+masters+red+jacket&amp;hl=en&amp;lr=lang_ca|lang_en|lang_fr|lang_it|lang_es\" title=\"Red Jacket\" class=\"external external_icon\">presented by Cindy Crawford<\/a>, then frankly, yes, it does.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.europeantour.com\/Tournaments\/roundscores.sps?iRound=1&amp;iTourNo=2004057\" title=\"Day 1 Leaderboard\" class=\"external external_icon\">Day 1 leaderboard<\/a>: Miguel Angel Jimenez leads at -6 (65), with Sergio Garcia, Peter Baker, Peter Hedblom and Marc Farry a shot back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Omega European Masters featuring an aging Spaniard&#8217;s redesign and&hellip; Cindy Crawford?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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