{"id":1786,"date":"2010-10-25T11:45:18","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T17:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/\/?p=1786"},"modified":"2017-06-07T09:43:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T14:43:17","slug":"twis-jonathan-byrd-wins-tourney-with-walk-off-ace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/twis-jonathan-byrd-wins-tourney-with-walk-off-ace\/","title":{"rendered":"T*W*I*S: Jonathan Byrd Wins Tourney with Walk-off Ace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Shot in the Dark Was Literally That on Fourth Play-0ff Hole<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1791\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1791\" style=\"width: 183px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1791 size-full\" title=\"Jonathan Byrd 2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Jonathan-Byrd-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"261\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1791\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Byrd&#8217;s walk-off ace is a golf rarity.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>How we love cool endings and this is one deserving of our weekly award for what&#8217;s good in sports.\u00a0 This time we head out to the Nevada desert and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpcsummerlin.com\/\">TPC Summerlin<\/a> to find our\u00a0TWIS recipient.\u00a0 We would say it&#8217;s Jonathan Byrd&#8217;s lucky day, but he already had one of those.\u00a0\u00a0On the fourth hole of a three-way playoff in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pga.com\/home\">PGA Tour<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"www.jtshrinersopen.com\/\">Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open<\/a> in Las Vegas, Byrd accomplished something extremely rare even for the PGA.\u00a0 There was barely enough light to see the green, much less the flag, on the 204-yard par four 17th hole.\u00a0 Hitting\u00a0and wishing,\u00a0his ball hit the green about 12 feet from the\u00a0pin,\u00a0took a couple of harmless\u00a0bounces and dropped in the cup.\u00a0 There was so little light available, no one on the tee box actually saw the miraculous shot.\u00a0 It was Byrd&#8217;s second competitive ace\u00a0and his fourth PGA victory.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=F5CvsG7olm0\">See it for yourself here.<\/a>\u00a0 Very cool, Mr. Byrd!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shot in the Dark Was Literally That on Fourth Play-0ff Hole How we love cool endings and this is one deserving of our weekly award for what&#8217;s good in sports.\u00a0 This time we head out to the Nevada desert and TPC Summerlin to find our\u00a0TWIS recipient.\u00a0 We would say it&#8217;s Jonathan Byrd&#8217;s lucky day, but &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/twis-jonathan-byrd-wins-tourney-with-walk-off-ace\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1786"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14522,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786\/revisions\/14522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}