{"id":267,"date":"2014-06-26T17:28:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T17:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jrpga.com\/blog\/?p=267"},"modified":"2018-06-27T04:23:19","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T04:23:19","slug":"vilips-wins-future-masters-11-12-on-dramatic-18th-hole-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jrpga.com\/blog\/vilips-wins-future-masters-11-12-on-dramatic-18th-hole-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"Vilips wins Future Masters 11 -12 on dramatic 18th hole shot!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karl Vilips secured his impressive Future Masters win with a stunning shot out of a fairway bunker on hole 18 that set up a clinching birdie putt in the 11-12 age division championship at the Press Thornton Future Masters. Vilips hit his 3-wood off the tee at No. 18, and pulled it into the left fairway bunker. As the 12-year-old approached his ball, the challenge looked greater with each step. \u201cI saw my lie, which wasn\u2019t great,\u201d Vilips said. \u201cI was uphill into the face, five feet from the lip. You could see half the ball and it was on an uphill, sidehill lie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tournament director Kevin Klein saw what Vilips faced and told a rules official, \u201cHe can\u2019t get that on the green.\u201d Vilips was 131 yards from the flag with an awkward stance in the bunker. \u201c\u2018One of these guys is going to hit it close,\u2019\u201d Vilips told himself. \u201cI was thinking all or nothing. I hit my 9-iron out of bunker and drew it in there.\u201d The ball finished three feet from the hole. \u201cThat was probably my best shot of the tournament,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jrpga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/11-12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-276 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jrpga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/11-12.jpg\" alt=\"11-12\" width=\"660\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jrpga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/11-12.jpg 660w, https:\/\/www.jrpga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/11-12-220x400.jpg 220w, https:\/\/www.jrpga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/11-12-563x1024.jpg 563w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After watching the final holes, Vilips\u2019 father, Paul, said, \u201cI aged at least another 5 years.\u201d Vilips\u2019 story is an unusual one. He is on a J-1 visa to be in the United States. \u201cThe reason we stay at the golf academy is so he can stay in the U.S. and satisfy the visa requirements,\u201d Paul Vilips said.\u00a0 \u201cHe\u2019s currently at the JPGA Academy in Hilton Head.They\u2019re helping him get to various tournaments because otherwise he simply couldn\u2019t play. We just don\u2019t have the financial means.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See Story from Dothan Eagle:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dothaneagle.com\/sports\/article_eaad8e86-fbfd-11e3-9cf0-001a4bcf6878.html\">http:\/\/www.dothaneagle.com\/sports\/article_eaad8e86-fbfd-11e3-9cf0-001a4bcf6878.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See Story from Future Masters Golf:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.futuremastersgolf.com\/public\/site\/\">http:\/\/www.futuremastersgolf.com\/public\/site\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karl Vilips secured his impressive Future Masters win with a stunning shot out of a fairway bunker on hole 18 that set up a clinching birdie putt in the 11-12 age division championship at&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[72,71,26,49,50,70],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jrpga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jrpga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jrpga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jrpga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jrpga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.jrpga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1074,"href":"https:\/\/www.jrpga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions\/1074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jrpga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jrpga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jrpga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jrpga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}