{"id":8482,"date":"2012-09-17T15:42:52","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T20:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/?p=8482"},"modified":"2014-11-22T03:35:42","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T08:35:42","slug":"golf-update-javier-ballesteros-has-won-the-amateur-madrid-open-dedicates-his-victory-to-his-fallen-dad-seve-ballesteros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/?p=8482","title":{"rendered":"GOLF UPDATE: JAVIER BALLESTEROS HAS WON THE AMATEUR MADRID OPEN, DEDICATES HIS VICTORY TO HIS FALLEN DAD, SEVE BALLESTEROS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>JAVIER BALLESTEROS WINS THE AMATEUR MADRID OPEN AFTER 3 ROUNDS OF COMPETITION BY COMING IN AT A TOURNAMENT SCORE OF 6 UNDER TO WIN BY FOUR STROKES FOR ONE OF HIS GREATEST VICTORIES OF HIS YOUNG CAREER. HIS ANNOUNCED TO THE WORLD THAT HE WAS DEDICATING THIS VICTORY TO HIS FATHER WHO DIED OF BRAIN CANCER AFTER ENJOYING ONE OF THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS AND REWARDING GOLF CAREERS, BOTH IN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEVE BALLESTEROS WAS ONE OF THE MOST BELOVED GOLFERS OF HIS TIME. THE GALLERIES WERE OFTEN OVER FLOWING WHEN HE PARTICIPATED IN EVENTS ALL OVER THE WORLD, AND HE ALSO WAS ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL GOLFERS, WINNING OVER 90 INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENTS, WHICH INCLUDED 5 MAJORS. THE MAJORS WERE,\u00a02 MASTERS WINS, AND THREE OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP WINS. HE ENJOYED THE RANKING OF WORLD NO.1 AND REACHED THIS GREAT RANKING DURING HIS YEARS ON THE\u00a0 PGA-\u00a0INTERNATIONAL TOUR WHICH\u00a0EXISTED FROM THE MID-SEVENTIES THRU THE MID-NINETIES. HE ALSO WON THE\u00a0WORLD MATCH PLAY CHAMPIONSHIPS A RECORD 5 TIMES. SEVE WAS ELECTED TO THE EUROPEAN GOLF HALL OF FAME IN 1999.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>THE WORLD WAS\u00a0 DEVASTATED ON\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>MAY 7TH 2011, TO LEARN THAT THE INTERNATIONAL WORLD OF GOLF HAD LOST ONE OF IT&#8217;S GREATEST CONTRIBUTORS TO THE SPORT, WITH SEVE BALLESTEROS LOSING THE ONE EVENT HE COULDN&#8217;T WIN, WHICH WAS THE BATTLE WITH CANCER.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>THE MYBOYSAY INTERNATIONAL GOLF ENTHUSIATS WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND A CONGRATULATIONS TO HIS SON, JAVIER, ON WHAT SHOULD BE ONLY THE BEGINNING OF A GREAT CAREER THAT WILL HOPEFULLY ELEVATE HIM TO HIS FATHER&#8217;S STATURE IN THE WORLD OF GOLF.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAVIER BALLESTEROS WINS THE AMATEUR MADRID OPEN AFTER 3 ROUNDS OF COMPETITION BY COMING IN AT A TOURNAMENT SCORE OF 6 UNDER TO WIN BY FOUR STROKES FOR ONE OF HIS GREATEST VICTORIES OF HIS YOUNG CAREER. HIS ANNOUNCED TO THE WORLD THAT HE WAS DEDICATING THIS VICTORY TO HIS FATHER WHO DIED OF BRAIN [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,110,13,14,1,7,9,10],"tags":[562,559,560,561],"class_list":["post-8482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-golf-sports-news","category-health","category-most-commented","category-news","category-sports","category-us","category-world","tag-golf-champions","tag-international-golf","tag-javier-ballesteros","tag-seve-ballesteros","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}