{"id":9084,"date":"2010-10-07T13:42:20","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T20:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=9084"},"modified":"2010-10-07T14:08:56","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T21:08:56","slug":"oconnor-wins-national-golf-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=9084","title":{"rendered":"O&#8217;Connor Wins National Golf Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week (September 29, 2010) <em>Carlsbadistan&#8217;s<\/em> <strong>Don O&#8217;Connor<\/strong>, a 47-year-old grocery store manager, won the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegolfchannel.com\/amateurtour\/national-championship\/\" target=\"_blank\">2010 Golf Channel Amateur Championship<\/a><\/strong> on the Stadium Course at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpc.com\/TPCSawgrass.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">TPC Sawgrass<\/a><\/strong>. Yes, what many believe to be the toughest course on tour.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Although the 47-year-old Carlsbad, Calif., resident came up short in his par quest, his closing 73 at soggy Sawgrass was enough to lift O\u2019Connor to the Championship Flight [handicap 0-3.9] crown. He finished at 7-over 295, one stroke clear of overnight leader Chad Bailey who closed with a 76. Terry Rice finished alone in third place, four strokes back after a closing 77. . . \u201cI try to play to my strengths,\u201d said O\u2019Connor, who didn\u2019t finish outside the top 10 in the nine Golf Channel Am Tour events he played in 2010. \u201cI would be considered a grinder, for sure.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe that Crossing at Carlsbad course is good for something afterall. Congrats, Don. Thanks for bringing home the title.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegolfchannel.com\/tour-insider\/oconnor-mimics-clark-winning-tour-crown-39717\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Golf Channel<\/a><\/strong><strong> via <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/2010\/oct\/07\/carlsbad-golfer-tackles-island-green-wins-nationa\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sign on San Diego<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week (September 29, 2010) Carlsbadistan&#8217;s Don O&#8217;Connor, a 47-year-old grocery store manager, won the 2010 Golf Channel Amateur Championship on the Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass. Yes, what many believe to be the toughest course on tour. Although the 47-year-old Carlsbad, Calif., resident came up short in his par quest, his closing 73 at [&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":[29,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9084"}],"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=9084"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9086,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9084\/revisions\/9086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}