{"id":1837,"date":"2012-11-09T15:14:11","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T15:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janinajacobs.com\/?p=1837"},"modified":"2012-11-09T15:14:11","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T15:14:11","slug":"criers-and-whiners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/janinajacobs\/golf\/1837\/criers-and-whiners","title":{"rendered":"Criers and Whiners"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Always in the hunt for new ways to play this most diffcult\u00a0game called golf\u00a0and make it more fun,\u00a0how about this:\u00a0‘Criers and Whiners’ – courtesy of Brent Kelley and\u00a0long-time good-guy Art McCafferty’s Michigan Golf News.\u00a0 Here, your bona-fide handicap is converted into ‘free shots’ that you can use as mulligans or ‘do-overs’.\u00a0 They are allowed anywhere on the course and at almost any time during the round with the exception of a mulligan off the first tee where normally, golfers just might traditionally enjoy one of those.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Let’s say your handicap is 20; in most cases, you’ll get 75% of that, unless you amend these ‘rules’ and use full handicap.\u00a0 As a 20, you will get to hit up to\u00a015 shots over again.\u00a0\u00a0 Top one into the lake on #4?\u00a0 Hit it again.\u00a0 19 left……miss a two foot putt on #5?\u00a0 Do over!\u00a0 18 left.\u00a0 One other rule is that you only get one shot at it, not a ‘hit-til-happy’ non-stop marathon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This format still does force you to think and carefully ponder exactly when you want a re-do.\u00a0 Case in point: When you are playing in an event that allows only one or two purchased\u00a0mulligans, you do feel a certain extra confidence in knowing you have those mullies in your back pocket if need be…..and anything giving extra confidence in golf is a winning idea.\u00a0 However, you DO use those mulligans with great care.\u00a0 And how often have you ever ended up not using a mulligan because you either forgot about it or waited too long for terrible shots that never surfaced?\u00a0 Often, you play a little bit better.\u00a0 But in hindsight, you really could have made a second attempt at that 20-foot downhill slider or hitting the green on your favorite par-3.<\/p>\n

Add this fun format to your tournament players handbook of good ideas – or just enjoy it during a casual round with your buds.\u00a0 Odds are, your game will improve.<\/p>\n

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Always in the hunt for new ways to play this most diffcult\u00a0game called golf\u00a0and make it more fun,\u00a0how about this:\u00a0‘Criers… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":1840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,18],"tags":[663081,663198,359602],"class_list":["post-1837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golf","category-lifestyle","tag-alternative-golf","tag-beginners-golf","tag-handicaps"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/janinajacobs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2012\/11\/Crying-and-whining-magnet-golf-ball.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/janinajacobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/janinajacobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/janinajacobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/janinajacobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/janinajacobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1837"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/janinajacobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1842,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/janinajacobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions\/1842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/janinajacobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/janinajacobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/janinajacobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/janinajacobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}