{"id":2863,"date":"2010-03-02T02:08:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T09:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/?p=2863"},"modified":"2010-03-02T04:46:02","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T11:46:02","slug":"long-drive-training-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/long-drive-training-begin\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Drive Training Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.longdrivers.com\/se_details.php?id=5\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-attachment-id=\"2869\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/long-drive-training-begin\/2010-lda-diamond-in-the-desert-classic\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/2010-LDA-Diamond-in-the-Desert-Classic.png?fit=717%2C332&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"717,332\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2010 LDA Diamond in the Desert Classic\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/2010-LDA-Diamond-in-the-Desert-Classic.png?fit=270%2C125&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/2010-LDA-Diamond-in-the-Desert-Classic.png?fit=540%2C250&amp;ssl=1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2869\" title=\"2010 LDA Diamond in the Desert Classic\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/2010-LDA-Diamond-in-the-Desert-Classic.png?resize=540%2C250\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/2010-LDA-Diamond-in-the-Desert-Classic.png?resize=540%2C250&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/2010-LDA-Diamond-in-the-Desert-Classic.png?resize=270%2C125&amp;ssl=1 270w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/2010-LDA-Diamond-in-the-Desert-Classic.png?w=717&amp;ssl=1 717w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMarch 1st, 2010 &#8211; Training for season 2 of long drive begins.<\/p>\n<p>Long Drivers of America (LDA) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.longdrivers.com\/remax.php\" target=\"_blank\">local qualifiers<\/a> are popping up all over with the first major event coming up March 25-27th in Mesquite, Nevada.  The 2010 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.longdrivers.com\/se_details.php?id=5\" target=\"_blank\">Diamond in the Desert Classic<\/a> requires zero pre-registration and will consist of 2 days of open qualifying to create a competitive field for Saturdays Desert Classic final.<\/p>\n<p>New to the RE\/MAX World Long Drive Championship sponsorship team this year is Dick&#8217;s Sporting Goods and the Slazenger RAW Extreme Distance golf ball.  I don&#8217;t know what happened to Pinnacle as the official golf ball of the LDA &#8211; maybe it just wasn&#8217;t <b><i>extreme<\/i><\/b> enough.  Personally &#8211; I&#8217;m a fan of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mausland.de\/showswf\/228\" target=\"_blank\">aggressive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So if your bored of the snow&#8230; lets go hang with the Mesquitos and start swinging.<\/p>\n<h2>Long Drive &#8211; Part 2<\/h2>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"549\" height=\"309\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9613767&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=1&amp;color=c9ff23&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 1st, 2010 &#8211; Training for season 2 of long drive begins. Long Drivers of America (LDA) local qualifiers are popping up all over with the first major event coming up March 25-27th in Mesquite, Nevada. The 2010 Diamond in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/long-drive-training-begin\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[38,105,39,37,6],"tags":[187,529,531,534,2999,109,188,530,3000,46,162,533,532,190],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2oCe7-Kb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2863"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2886,"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863\/revisions\/2886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}