{"id":22659,"date":"2017-06-26T15:41:52","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T15:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22659"},"modified":"2017-06-26T15:41:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T15:41:52","slug":"this-young-man-is-the-next-superstar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22659","title":{"rendered":"This young man is the next superstar?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/jordan-spieth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22660\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/jordan-spieth-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/jordan-spieth-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/jordan-spieth.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jordan Spieth seems like a quiet young man. He hails from Dallas. He plays golf for a living. He&#8217;s pretty good at it, too.<\/p>\n<p>He won a golf tournament over the weekend by sinking a shot out of a sand bunker. Spectacular stuff, to be sure. For a golf fan who is still waiting for the return of its most recent super-duper star, a guy named Tiger, I am pleased to see another young man emerge to capture the attention of the golfing world.<\/p>\n<p>Golf is about as statistic-happy a sport as, say, baseball. Consider this little tidbit the announcers tossed into our laps: Spieth, who&#8217;s 23 years of age, is the second-youngest player ever to win his 10th professional golf event. The youngest is the aforementioned Tiger Woods; the third youngest is a guy out of Ohio named Jack Nicklaus.<\/p>\n<p>Think about that for a moment. <em>Tiger Woods, Jordan Spieth, Jack Nicklaus.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The young Texan surely understands that he currently is walking among some pretty tall cotton.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan Spieth seems like a quiet young man. He hails from Dallas. He plays golf for a living. He&#8217;s pretty good at it, too. He won a golf tournament over the weekend by sinking a shot out of a sand bunker. Spectacular stuff, to be sure. For a golf fan who is still waiting for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22659\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This young man is the next superstar?<\/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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2387,3584,4804],"class_list":["post-22659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-jack-nicklaus","tag-pga","tag-tiger-woods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22661,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22659\/revisions\/22661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}