The PGA Tour is making one final stop in San Antonio for the Valero Texas Open ahead of next week’s Masters.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Looking to take advantage of the last chance to punch a ticket to Augusta National, SMU<\/a> product Austin Smotherman made a splash in Thursday’s first round, bouncing home his first ace on Tour<\/a> on the 220-yard, par-3 No. 13. Smotherman is among the logjam of contenders, including Plano’s Will Zalatoris, at the top of the early leaderboard<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Neither Smotherman nor Zalatoris are currently qualified to play in next week’s major tournament, but a win in San Antonio would secure their place in the field.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The PGA Tour is making one final stop in San Antonio for the Valero Texas Open ahead of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,90174,90173],"class_list":["post-232977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-tp-bryson-dechambeau","tag-tp-will-zalatoris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}