{"id":2106,"date":"2011-01-13T11:14:57","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T18:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffwallach.com\/?p=2106"},"modified":"2011-02-19T14:54:57","modified_gmt":"2011-02-19T21:54:57","slug":"my-best-golf-prediction-for-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/golf\/personalities\/2106\/my-best-golf-prediction-for-2011","title":{"rendered":"My Best Golf Prediction for 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, it’s also my biggest golf hope for the new year . . .<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>2011 will finally see the demise of the Senior Tour (er, excuse me, \u201cChampions\u201d Tour)\u2014an idea so awful creators had to change the name of this most cynical and misdirected sports marketing effort in history. Sure I loved watching Arnie and Jack back in the day, and was sad to see them retire. And I still love Peter Jacobsen and Freddie and the guys who are actually my age. But a rule of sport should be that when you are too old to compete you have to quit: You don\u2019t get to play for millions of dollars in the \u201cB\u201d League. I mean, would you want to watch Larry Bird and Bill Russell hobbling down the polished hardwood on a \u201cslow break?\u201d I predict we\u2019ll soon take the bazillions in sponsorship dollars squandered on old guys who\u2019ve already enjoyed lucrative careers and channel it into junior golf, toward players with a future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay, it’s also my biggest golf hope for the new year . . . 2011 will finally see the demise… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5048,7],"tags":[5199,689],"class_list":["post-2106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golf","category-alternative-golf-assoc","category-personalities","tag-golf-predictions","tag-champions-tour"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/01\/edwin-dibos.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2106"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2206,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106\/revisions\/2206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}