{"id":968,"date":"2010-10-14T13:28:31","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T05:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parforchina.com\/?p=968"},"modified":"2016-05-16T11:58:09","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T15:58:09","slug":"my-coverage-of-the-asian-amateur-championship-for-golf-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/my-coverage-of-the-asian-amateur-championship-for-golf-digest\/","title":{"rendered":"My coverage of the Asian Amateur Championship for Golf Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Cool When It Counted<\/h2>\n<h4><em>Japan&#8217;s Hideki Matsuyama cruised to a win in the second Asian Amateur Championship, earning a berth in next spring&#8217;s Masters<\/em><\/h4>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>by DAN WASHBURN<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.golfdigest.com\/magazine\/golf-world\">Golf Digest<\/a><\/em>, October 10, 2010<\/p>\n<p><big>KAWAGOE, Japan \u2014 Nerves don&#8217;t appear to affect 18-year-old Hideki Mastuyama \u2014 until he leaves the golf course. The Japanese college freshman, so smiley and carefree with a club in his hands, looked absolutely petrified on the awards podium, even as he gingerly held the Asian Amateur Championship trophy he had just earned in convincing fashion. He didn&#8217;t crack a smile until he heard the two words that had been whispered with almost mystical significance over the past several days at Kasumigaseki Country Club in suburban Tokyo: <em>The Masters<\/em>.<\/big><\/p>\n<p><em>Read the entire story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.golfdigest.com\/golf-tours-news\/2010-10\/golf-asian-amateur-washburn\">here<\/a>. I&#8217;ll have a longer, more in-depth piece on the Asian Amateur in a future issue of <\/em>Golf World<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s Hideki Matsuyama cruised to a win in the second Asian Amateur Championship, earning a berth in the 2011 Masters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":970,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24],"tags":[135,136,137,7,138,59,9,139],"class_list":["post-968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-featured","tag-asia","tag-asian-amateur","tag-event-coverage","tag-golf","tag-golf-digest","tag-golf-world","tag-stories","tag-the-masters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2099,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions\/2099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}