{"id":571657,"date":"2026-04-08T11:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T11:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/571657\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T11:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T11:20:08","slug":"meet-brandon-holtz-illinois-realtor-living-out-his-masters-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/571657\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Brandon Holtz, Illinois realtor living out his Masters dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUGUSTA, Ga. \u2014 Every spring at Augusta National, remarkable Masters stories emerge.<\/p>\n<p>Not the ones forever seared into your memories, like Tiger Woods\u2019 explosion onto the scene in 1997 and his subsequent excellence that led to five green jackets, or Jack Nicklaus before him, winning six, including that indelible 1986 victory at age 46, or Arnold Palmer and other legends before that.<\/p>\n<p>The stories that move me most in the 32 Masters I\u2019ve covered for The Post are the unlikely journeys. Stories about guys whose chances of making the cut and playing the weekend are about as realistic as you scoring a Saturday tee time at Augusta National with your buddies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Brandon Holtz is that story this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUGUSTA, Ga. \u2014 Every spring at Augusta National, remarkable Masters stories emerge. Not the ones forever seared into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99,362,358,51195],"class_list":{"0":"post-571657","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-sports-columnists","11":"tag-sports-plus","12":"tag-the-masters"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}