{"id":20597,"date":"2015-02-23T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/b\/?p=20597"},"modified":"2015-02-23T16:11:22","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T21:11:22","slug":"volume_four_hundred_twenty_one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/b\/hittin_the_links\/volume_four_hundred_twenty_one","title":{"rendered":"Volume Four Hundred Twenty One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hittin the Links\" src=\"\/b\/imgs\/hittin_the_links\/htl_title.gif\" height=\"79\" width=\"125\" \/>This week we saw James Hahn get his first PGA Tour win at the Northern Trust Open, Lydia Ko win her 17th event this month (still fact-checking that one), and Scott Piercy get lost in an ocean of sand traps.<\/p>\n<p>Tiger Woods was ruled out of the next few events, and Josh Scobee wants in.<\/p>\n<p>All that, plus an antsy Michael Jordan, a second dose of DLIII, and a bit of manufacturing innovation from PING.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s get into it.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Hole #1: James Hahn Wins First PGA Tour Event at Riviera<\/strong><br \/>\nSergio Garcia briefly considered joining Hahn, Paul Casey, and Dustin Johnson in the playoff, but on the 72nd tee he remembered he was Sergio Garcia. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.golfchannel.com\/news\/golf-central-blog\/hahn-wins-playoff-take-northern-trust\/\" title=\"Hahn wins Northern Trust\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"external external_icon\">Link<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hole #2: Davis Love III Will Captain U.S. Ryder Cup Team for IInd Time<\/strong><br \/>\nAs Love&#8217;s first order of business, all players will be forced to wear visors. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/golf\/2015\/2\/16\/8049235\/ryder-cup-2016-davis-love-iii-united-states-captain-fred-couples\" title=\"DLIII to captain ryder cup team\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"external external_icon\">Link<\/a>] <\/p>\n<p><strong>Hole #3: PING Previews 3D Printer Putter<\/strong><br \/>\n3D printing may be the future of manufacturing, but it has a ways to go before it is commercially viable on a large scale. Still, it&#8217;s good to see a company like PING getting in on it early. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3kKoZHU69_Y\" title=\"PING 3D printing\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"external external_icon\">Link<\/a>] <\/p>\n<p><strong>Hole #4: Tiger Woods Will Not Play in Honda Classic or WGC-Cadillac Championship<\/strong><br \/>\nTiger&#8217;s agent confirmed this week than Woods will not play in the upcoming Honda Classic. By virtue of his OWGR position, he will also miss the subsequent WGC event. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.golf.com\/tour-and-news\/tiger-woods-will-not-play-honda-classic-2015\" title=\"Tiger will not play in Honda or Cadillac\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"external external_icon\">Link<\/a>] <\/p>\n<p><strong>Hole #5: 17-Year-Old Lydia Ko Wins Women&#8217;s Australia Open<\/strong><br \/>\nKo, 17, now has nine professional wins under her belt, and is the top-ranked women&#8217;s golfer in the world at 17 years old. Did I mention she&#8217;s 17? She&#8217;s 17. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.golf.com\/lydia-ko-wins-womens-australian-open-2-strokes-0\" title=\"Lydia Ko wins women's australia open\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"external external_icon\">Link<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hole #6: Michael Jordan Explores Building Himself a Golf Course<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Charlotte Hornets are going so well he just felt like branching out into new business opportunities. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.golf.com\/tour-and-news\/michael-jordan-explores-building-super-private-golf-course-florida-sources-say\" title=\"MJ explored opening golf course\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"external external_icon\">Link<\/a>] <\/p>\n<p><strong>Hole #7: Jacksonville Jaguars Kicker Josh Scobee Challenges Tiger to a Match at $100,000 Per Hole<\/strong><br \/>\nThat&#8217;s actually the least aggressive thing that anyone has ever tweeted in line at Chick-Fil-A. [<a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/12319905\/jacksonville-jaguars-kicker-josh-scobee-jokingly-challenges-tiger-woods-skins-match-100000-per-hole\" title=\"Josh Scobee challenges Tiger\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"external external_icon\">Link<\/a>] <\/p>\n<p><strong>Hole #8: Scott Piercy Hits Four Straight Shots from Four Different Bunkers<\/strong><br \/>\nHe&#8217;s currently being treated for PTSD. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/golf\/2015\/2\/19\/8069885\/scott-piercy-riviera-10th-hole-sand-shots\" title=\"Scott Piercy goes bunker-to-bunker-to-bunker-to-bunker\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"external external_icon\">Link<\/a>] <\/p>\n<p><strong>Hole #9: What is Going On With Tiger Woods&#8217;s Clothes?<\/strong><br \/>\nOn-course Tiger is very plain and clean-cut; a polo shirt or mock turtleneck and khakis are his base, which he pairs with a baseball cap and sometimes a v-neck sweater. 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[<a href=\"http:\/\/grantland.com\/the-triangle\/tiger-woods-clothes-sportstorialist\/\" title=\"Tiger Woods's Clothes\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"external external_icon\">Link<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another playoff at Riviera, Lydia Ko notches a victory, and an NFL kicker wants a shot at Tiger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20597","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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