{"id":1087,"date":"2010-09-04T01:20:33","date_gmt":"2010-09-04T08:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robertfagan.com\/?p=1087"},"modified":"2011-11-21T09:29:31","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T16:29:31","slug":"book-review-the-gift-of-golf-my-life-with-a-wonderful-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/golf\/book-reviews\/1087\/book-review-the-gift-of-golf-my-life-with-a-wonderful-game","title":{"rendered":"Book Review:  The Gift of Golf \u2013 My Life With a Wonderful Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Peggy Kirk Bell with Lee Pace<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you relish golf\u2019s recent history in America, you probably already know of Peggy Kirk Bell, one of the grand ladies of the American Golf.\u00a0 \u201cThe Gift of Golf\u201d is her autobiography with some lessons attached.\u00a0 Mrs. Bell is simply one of the games most revered people, an LPGA pioneer as both a player and a renowned teacher, and the matriarch that runs the family-oriented Pine Needles and Mid-Pines resorts in Southern Pines, North Carolina.\u00a0 She traces her development as a player, her wonderful marriage to Warren \u201cBullet\u201d Bell, and her life as a player, teacher, and friend of the game. The text is simple and easy, unpretentious, enlightening and thoughtful, just like its subject.\u00a0 A quick read of under 140 pages, it is offered at a list price of $17.95.\u00a0 Check with The Pilot, PO Box 58, Southern Pines, NC 28387.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Peggy Kirk Bell with Lee Pace If you relish golf\u2019s recent history in America, you probably already know of&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/golf\/book-reviews\/1087\/book-review-the-gift-of-golf-my-life-with-a-wonderful-game\" title=\"ReadBook Review:  The Gift of Golf \u2013 My Life With a Wonderful Game\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2437],"tags":[2438],"class_list":["post-1087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-peggy-kirk-bell"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6268,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions\/6268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}