{"id":9235,"date":"2009-07-20T12:54:19","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T19:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=9235"},"modified":"2009-07-20T13:47:48","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T20:47:48","slug":"the-2009-hurley-us-open-of-mens-surfing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=9235","title":{"rendered":"The 2009 Hurley US Open Of Men&#8217;s Surfing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/hero.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/hero.jpg','popup','width=934,height=273,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/hero-tm.jpg\" height=\"125\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Hero\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Each summer just when it appears that the crowds in Huntington Beach, California can&#8217;t get any larger or the sand burn much hotter in roll 400,000 people for the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usopenofsurfing.com\/site6.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">US Open of Surfing<\/a><\/strong>&#8211;the largest surfing event in the world. Running all this week (July 18-26, 2009), the event will feature what the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/la-sp-us-open-surfing21-2009jul21,0,3955258.story\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a><\/strong> is calling &#8220;the richest prize in competitive surfing history.&#8221; The first place pay is only $20,000, but <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hurley.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hurley<\/a><\/strong> is throwing in an extra $80,000 bringing the total men&#8217;s first prize to $100,000.<\/p>\n<p>After having watched street skater <strong>Chris Cole<\/strong> pull down $100,000 and vert skater <strong>PLG<\/strong> pull in $75,000 at last week&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=9058\" target=\"_blank\">Maloof Money Cup<\/a><\/strong>, it&#8217;s kind of sad that $100,000 is still such a big deal in professional surfing. But whoever wins the mens certainly won&#8217;t be complaining about anything.<\/p>\n<p>In the women&#8217;s event it may be a different story. Featuring <strong>Stephanie Gilmore<\/strong>, <strong>Sofia Mulanovich<\/strong>, and eight of the top 10 from the <strong>ASP World Tour<\/strong>, the women&#8217;s event will pay out a $4,500 first place prize. Anyone want to kick in any extra cash for the girls? We thought not.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usopenofsurfing.com\/SCHEDULE.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for for the complete 2009 Hurley US Open schedule of the events<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usopenofsurfing.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hurley US Open of Surfing<\/a><\/strong><strong> and <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/la-sp-us-open-surfing21-2009jul21,0,3955258.story\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each summer just when it appears that the crowds in Huntington Beach, California can&#8217;t get any larger or the sand burn much hotter in roll 400,000 people for the US Open of Surfing&#8211;the largest surfing event in the world. Running all this week (July 18-26, 2009), the event will feature what the LA Times is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9235"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9237,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9235\/revisions\/9237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}