{"id":11213,"date":"2012-10-19T16:31:41","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T23:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=11213"},"modified":"2012-10-19T16:43:36","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T23:43:36","slug":"golf-balls-from-heaven-at-the-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=11213","title":{"rendered":"Golf Balls From Heaven At The Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DSC_0057.jpg','popup','width=1667,height=1111,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\" href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DSC_0057.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DSC_0057-tm.jpg\" alt=\"Dsc 0057\" width=\"430\" height=\"286\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbaded.org\" target=\"_blank\">Carlsbad Education Foundation&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbaded.org\" target=\"_blank\">12th Annual Carlsbad Golf Classic<\/a><\/strong> got off to loud start today at noon with the helicopter ball drop at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecrossingsatcarlsbad.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Crossings at Carlsbad<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Dennis Fritz<\/strong> from Carlsbad won $5,000 when the ball with his number on it dropped into the 9th hole. <strong>Buffy Richford<\/strong>, a representative from <strong>V Partner<\/strong>, the charitable arm of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.viasat.com\" target=\"_blank\">ViaSat<\/a><\/strong>, was in the helicopter, dropping golf balls onto the green below. . . The \u201cChopper Dropper\u201d was just part of the Carlsbad Golf Classic which lasts all day with a golf tournament followed by wine tasting, dinner and silent and live auctions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Follow the jump for more photos from <strong>Peter Meade<\/strong>. More coverage on the way.<!--more--><a onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DSC_0066.jpg','popup','width=2144,height=1424,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\" href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DSC_0066.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DSC_0066-tm.jpg\" alt=\"Dsc 0066\" width=\"430\" height=\"285\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Buffy Richford<\/strong> dropping the balls.<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/CEF-PR-4.jpg','popup','width=1200,height=800,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\" href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/CEF-PR-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/CEF-PR-4-tm.jpg\" alt=\"Cef-Pr-4\" width=\"430\" height=\"286\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSee the ball in the hole? That&#8217;s money.<br \/>\n<a onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DSC_0076.jpg','popup','width=1860,height=1240,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\" href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DSC_0076.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DSC_0076-tm.jpg\" alt=\"Dsc 0076\" width=\"430\" height=\"286\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nX Marks the landing spot.<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DSC_0071.jpg','popup','width=2144,height=1424,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\" href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DSC_0071.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DSC_0071-tm.jpg\" alt=\"Dsc 0071\" width=\"430\" height=\"285\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Dennis Fritz&#8217;s<\/strong> ball number 114 in the hole for $5,000.<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/CEF-PR-5-1.jpg','popup','width=1200,height=800,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\" href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/CEF-PR-5-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/CEF-PR-5-1-tm.jpg\" alt=\"Cef-Pr-5-1\" width=\"430\" height=\"286\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nGreat day for fund raising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Carlsbad Education Foundation&#8217;s 12th Annual Carlsbad Golf Classic got off to loud start today at noon with the helicopter ball drop at The Crossings at Carlsbad. Dennis Fritz from Carlsbad won $5,000 when the ball with his number on it dropped into the 9th hole. Buffy Richford, a representative from V Partner, the charitable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,9,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11213"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11213"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11224,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11213\/revisions\/11224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}