{"id":1032,"date":"2015-04-21T08:01:58","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T08:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mungret.com\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2015-04-21T08:01:58","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T08:01:58","slug":"jordan-spieth-at-jesuit-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mungret.com\/news-events\/jordan-spieth-at-jesuit-dallas\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Spieth at Jesuit, Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week the world\u2019s eyes (especially golfing eyes) were focused on Jordan Spieth, the astonishing 21-year-old who won the US Masters title on Low Sunday. He has a strong link with the Jesuits, having attended the Jesuit College in Dallas, Texas. He missed his graduation because he was playing in a high-level golf competition at the time. An uncited source reports that he did the Kairos retreat, an intense spiritual exercise shared by older students with younger.<\/p>\n<p>A letter which Spieth wrote in 2009 to the donors to a memorial scholarship has emerged. He was the recipient of the fund, which, he stressed, allowed him to further his education on all fronts. \u201cI play on the Jesuit golf team,\u201d he told them, \u201cand I am ranked the number 1 junior golfer in the country. My dream is to play professionally and to win the Masters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause of your scholarship fund,\u201d he concluded, \u201cI am able to strengthen my academics as well as my golf game at Jesuit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesuit.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/jspieth_02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesuit.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/jspieth_02.jpg\" alt=\"Jordan Spieth\" width=\"642\" height=\"811\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week the world\u2019s eyes (especially golfing eyes) were focused on Jordan Spieth, the astonishing 21-year-old who won the US Masters title on Low Sunday. He has a strong link with the Jesuits, having attended the Jesuit College in Dallas, Texas. He missed his graduation because he was playing in a high-level golf competition at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mungret.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mungret.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mungret.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mungret.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mungret.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mungret.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1033,"href":"http:\/\/www.mungret.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions\/1033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mungret.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mungret.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mungret.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}