{"id":2127,"date":"2011-02-03T19:21:52","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T02:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffwallach.com\/?p=2127"},"modified":"2012-02-12T11:07:55","modified_gmt":"2012-02-12T18:07:55","slug":"what-i-would-change-about-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/golf\/2127\/what-i-would-change-about-golf","title":{"rendered":"What I would change about golf . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/02\/6a00d8341c506253ef0147e2232b1a970b-320wi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2130\" src=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/02\/6a00d8341c506253ef0147e2232b1a970b-320wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"457\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s Thursday night and you\u2019re watching the Lakers-Celtics game on TV in your favorite sports bar. \u00a0Kobe gets knocked to the hardwood going down the lane, leaving a puddle of sweat on the floor. And the ref insists that they play on without mopping it up.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s basically no different than two rules of golf\u2014the first requiring players to hit out of a divot even if they\u2019ve hammered the ball perfectly into the middle of the fairway; the second requiring play out of an unraked bunker footprint, even if it was left by Godzilla. Not just unfair, but stupid. Let\u2019s change these rules and not punish a guy for the failure of some other knucklehead to take care of the course as he was supposed to.<\/p>\n<p>However, this rule change would not apply to leaving your clothes on the floor at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Thursday night and you\u2019re watching the Lakers-Celtics game on TV in your favorite sports bar. \u00a0Kobe gets knocked to&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/golf\/2127\/what-i-would-change-about-golf\" title=\"ReadWhat I would change about golf . . .\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6570,9,277563,3916,4907,5048,5975,6127,6569],"tags":[5188,1224,5189],"class_list":["post-2127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conn-golf-assoc","category-golf","category-wisconsin-golfer","category-kempersports","category-oregon-golf-assoc","category-alternative-golf-assoc","category-long-island-golf-assoc","category-so-cal-golf-assoc","category-azga","tag-kobe-bryant","tag-golf-rules","tag-hitting-out-of-divot"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/02\/spt-nba-lakers-110201.grid-5x2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127","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=2127"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3345,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127\/revisions\/3345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/jeffwallach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}