{"id":357,"date":"2011-09-09T09:50:39","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T16:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/herbgould.com\/?p=357"},"modified":"2011-09-09T09:50:39","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T16:50:39","slug":"the-scariest-words-in-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/herbgould\/golf\/personalities\/357\/the-scariest-words-in-golf","title":{"rendered":"The Scariest Words in Golf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/herbgould\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2011\/09\/Herb-Gould-headshot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-360\" src=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/herbgould\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2011\/09\/Herb-Gould-headshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a>I love fall golf, because the ball rolls, greens tend to be fast and true, and because the courses are less crowded. I&#8217;m busy in football season, and have to squeeze in my favorite rounds of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Playing yesterday, though, we were surprised to see three foursomes ahead of our weekday 7:42 teetime. Worse still, I heard the scariest words in golf:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m a 17, so you should all play off of my ball.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And they were on the blue tees!<\/p>\n<p>I will give them credit, though. They got it done in 4 hours and 20 minutes. It\u00a0 added 45 minutes to our round, but I had feared it would be worse.<\/p>\n<p>My advice to one and all: Play it forward. At least until you&#8217;re shooting 73 or lower. You play faster, score better and you get to use all kinds of fun clubs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love fall golf, because the ball rolls, greens tend to be fast and true, and because the courses are&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/herbgould\/golf\/personalities\/357\/the-scariest-words-in-golf\" title=\"ReadThe Scariest Words in Golf\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,334,18,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golf","category-commentary","category-lifestyle","category-personalities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/herbgould\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2011\/09\/Herb-Gould-headshot.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/herbgould\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","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=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/herbgould\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/herbgould\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/herbgould\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/herbgould\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/herbgould\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/herbgould\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}