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Long Beach continued its campaign to completely take over the professional sports world, last weekend, when Wilson grad John Merrick had a stellar performance at the Masters. <\/span>There was plenty of media coverage of Tiger Woods, but Merrick ended up tied with him, as he shot 8-under, tying him for sixth place in the tournament, just one stroke behind Phil Mickelson. <\/span>Merrick had the field’s best Sunday, shooting a 66 on the Masters’ final day.<\/p>\n Last weekend was Merrick’s first time playing at Augusta (he earned an appearance with a sixth-place finish at the US Open), though his Sunday-best score has automatically qualified him to play again in next year’s Masters. <\/span>“Fun day out there,” Merrick told The Canadian Press. <\/span>“I can’t wait to tee it up again next year.”<\/p>\n While he’s not grabbing a lot of headlines (yet), the Masters showing was just another step forward for Merrick, who already has three top ten finishes in 2009. <\/span>He currently stands at 19th<\/sup> on the PGA’s money list, having earned $1,044,012 (almost a quarter of that from his Masters performance). <\/span><\/p>\n The four-year pro’s best tournament of the year was the Bob Hope Classic in January, when he shot a 30-under to grab second place, and over half-a-million dollars in prize money. <\/span>Stay tuned to LBPostSports.com, as we’ll keep you updated on how Merrick performs throughout the season!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" LB-native John Merrick took sixth at last weekend’s Masters, with a Sunday-best round of 66.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4174"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=4174"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}