{"id":1711,"date":"2010-12-23T04:00:08","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robertfagan.com\/?p=1711"},"modified":"2011-07-22T10:51:58","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T17:51:58","slug":"twelve-days-of-fagan-in-my-opinion-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/commentary\/1711\/twelve-days-of-fagan-in-my-opinion-day-2","title":{"rendered":"Twelve Days of Fagan:  In My Opinion\u2026  DAY 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>11.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Half the players on the Champions Tour are truly grateful they did not receive the scrutiny regarding their personal life that Tiger Woods has.\u00a0 (And that\u2019s a sentiment directly told me from several of them.)<\/p>\n<p>12.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pebble Beach has never been nor will ever be a \u201clinks\u201d course.\u00a0 Calling it the &#8220;Pebble Beach Golf Links&#8221; is marketing mumbo jumbo.<\/p>\n<p>13.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The best and most honest TV golf announcer for me remains Johnny Miller.\u00a0 Just wish he was half as good a golf course architect as he is an announcer.<\/p>\n<p>14.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Riding golf carts have made the game less enjoyable and slower, but easier for the unfit to play.<\/p>\n<p>15.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ricky Fowler\u2019s hats make mock turtlenecks and bell-bottom paisley pants look good.<\/p>\n<p>16.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hollis Stacy, Jan Stephenson, and Jane Blalock all deserve to be in the LPGA Hall of Fame.\u00a0 While the men are too lenient, the women are too restrictive.<\/p>\n<p>17.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Grow the game by hooking the parents.<\/p>\n<p>18.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 U.S. Presidents who play golf shouldn\u2019t seem to automatically qualify for any Golf Hall of Fame simply because they support the game.\u00a0 There are far too many other people who volunteer far more and never get recognized.<\/p>\n<p>19.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The LPGA players do, in fact, \u201ctry harder.\u201d\u00a0 Too bad they are not more successful in gaining more followers.<!-- @font-face {   font-family: \"Cambria\"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: \"Times New Roman\"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } --><\/p>\n<p>20.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The USGA ruling limiting the length of tees is silly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Half the players on the Champions Tour are truly grateful they did not receive the scrutiny regarding their personal&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/commentary\/1711\/twelve-days-of-fagan-in-my-opinion-day-2\" title=\"ReadTwelve Days of Fagan:  In My Opinion\u2026  DAY 2\">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":[334],"tags":[1132,4530,53,689,1418,1046284,83,4526,4527,4528,4529,4503],"class_list":["post-1711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","tag-johnny-miller","tag-golf-carts","tag-tiger-woods","tag-champions-tour","tag-lpga","tag-pebble-beach","tag-usga","tag-tees","tag-hollis-stacy","tag-jane-blalock","tag-jan-stephenson","tag-ricky-fowler"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711","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=1711"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1774,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions\/1774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}