{"id":258,"date":"2011-03-30T13:12:28","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T20:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/herbgould.com\/?p=258"},"modified":"2011-03-30T13:12:28","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T20:12:28","slug":"french-lick-to-host-big-ten-tourneys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/herbgould\/travel\/258\/french-lick-to-host-big-ten-tourneys","title":{"rendered":"French Lick to host Big Ten tourneys"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"_mcePaste\">Congrats to French Lick Resort, which will host the Big Ten men\u2019s and women\u2019s golf championships beginning in 2012 for three years.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">If you\u2019re not familiar with golf at French Lick, this is another reminder that it\u2019s a great place to tee it up. Golfweek Magazine recently ranked the Dye course No. 1 and the Ross course No. 2 among the \u201cBest Courses You Can Play\u201d rankings in the state of Indiana.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">The historic Donald Ross course, which was restored to its original early 20th century design in 2006, is fun and whimsical, a nice departure from modern trickery, but not without peril.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">The Pete Dye course, which earned Golf Digest\u2019s designaton as America\u2019s Best New Public Course when it opened in 2009 by Golf Digest, is challenging enough to be a PGA tour stop. It has a fine combination of majestic vistas and narrow fairways spread over rolling hilltop terrain. For a more detailed look, check out my review elsewhere on theaposition.com\/herbgould.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">Both courses are familiar ground for championship play. Walter Hagen won the 1924 PGA on the Ross course, which also was the site of the LPGA Championship in 1959 and 1960. And last summer, Illinois men\u2019s golf coach Mike Small won \u00a0the PGA\u2019s Professional National Championship.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">This will be the first time the Big Ten will hold its men\u2019s and women\u2019s tournaments at the same time and on a neutral site.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congrats to French Lick Resort, which will host the Big Ten men\u2019s and women\u2019s golf championships beginning in 2012 for&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/herbgould\/travel\/258\/french-lick-to-host-big-ten-tourneys\" title=\"ReadFrench Lick to host Big Ten tourneys\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2980,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-golf","category-news","category-travel","category-courses-and-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/herbgould\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/herbgould\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/herbgould\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/herbgould\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/herbgould\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/herbgould\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/herbgould\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/herbgould\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/herbgould\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/herbgould\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}