{"id":2184,"date":"2007-09-17T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/columns\/hittin_the_links\/volume_one_hundred_fourteen"},"modified":"2007-09-17T08:00:07","modified_gmt":"2007-09-17T12:00:07","slug":"volume_one_hundred_fourteen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/b\/hittin_the_links\/volume_one_hundred_fourteen","title":{"rendered":"Volume One Hundred Fourteen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hitting the Links\" src=\"\/b\/imgs\/hittin_the_links\/htl_title.gif\" height=\"79\" width=\"125\" \/>After taking a bit of heat for not watching golf last weekend (the horror!), I sat down and watched Zack Johnson throw up a 60 on Saturday and Tiger Woods giving the rest of the field a beat-down with an eight-stroke victory at the Tour Championship to claim the inaugural FedExCup.<\/p>\n<p>This week, we have several links from the Tour Championship, &#8220;choking dogs,&#8221; and a golf score that is simply ridiculous.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Hole 1: Woods Wins Yet Again<\/strong><br \/>\nTiger Woods toyed with the field and won the Tour Championship and the inaugural FedExCup. Next year maybe he&#8217;ll spot the field two events. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pgatour.com\/2007\/tournaments\/r060\/09\/16\/sunday\/index.html\" title=\"Woods Wins\" class=\"external external_icon\">Link<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hole 2: Too Many Cups<\/strong><br \/>\nYou thought this year was a grind, wait until 2008 with the Ryder Cup the weekend after the Tour Championship. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.golf.com\/golf\/tours_news\/article\/0,28136,1662399,00.html\" title=\"Too Many Cups\" class=\"external external_icon\">Link<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hole 3: Keeping the Cup<\/strong><br \/>\nThe U.S. women&#8217;s team pounded the Europeans in the singles matches on Sunday to retain the Solheim Cup. Not sure if Dottie Pepper received an invite to the post-round festivities. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.golf.com\/golf\/tours_news\/article\/0,28136,1662338,00.html\" title=\"Keeping the Cup\" class=\"external external_icon\">Link<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hole 4: Ms. Foot, Meet Ms. Mouth<\/strong><br \/>\nDottie Pepper: Motivational Speaker. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.golf.com\/golf\/tours_news\/article\/0,28136,1662299,00.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">Link<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hole 5: Blame the U-Grooves<\/strong><br \/>\nRees Jones, who renovated East Lake years ago, watched as the PGA Tour&#8217;s best fired low number after low number at the Tour Championship. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.golf.com\/golf\/tours_news\/article\/0,28136,1662309,00.html\" title=\"Blame the U-Grooves\" class=\"external external_icon\">Link<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hole 6: Fall Golf<\/strong><br \/>\nThe FedExCup is in Tiger&#8217;s hand and the golf season is over, right? Rex Hoggard doesn&#8217;t think so. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.golfweek.com\/commentaries\/hoggard_091407\" title=\"Fall Golf\" class=\"external external_icon\">Link<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hole 7: Lack of Imagination<\/strong><br \/>\nRon Whitten explores several restoration projects of Donald Ross. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.golfdigest.com\/golfworld\/columnists\/2007\/09\/gw20070914whitten\" title=\"Lack of Imagination\" class=\"external external_icon\">Link<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hole 8: Going Pro<\/strong><br \/>\nU.S. Amateur winner Colt Knost is turning down a chance to play at the Masters as an amateur. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.golf.com\/golf\/tours_news\/article\/0,28136,1662380,00.html\" title=\"Going Pro\" class=\"external external_icon\">Link<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hole 9: You Shot What?<\/strong><br \/>\nYou&#8217;ve got to be kiddin&#8217; me. [<a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/golf\/news\/story?id=3017276&amp;campaign=rss&amp;source=GOLFHeadlines\" title=\"You Shot What?\" class=\"external external_icon\">Link<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiger made East Lake look like Uncle Al&#8217;s Pitch and Putt.<\/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-2184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hittin_the_links"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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