{"id":1714,"date":"2010-12-24T03:06:29","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T10:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robertfagan.com\/?p=1714"},"modified":"2011-07-22T10:51:47","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T17:51:47","slug":"twelve-days-of-fagan-in-my-opinion-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/commentary\/1714\/twelve-days-of-fagan-in-my-opinion-day-3","title":{"rendered":"Twelve Days of Fagan:  In My Opinion\u2026 DAY 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>21.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Golf is again a game of the affluent.\u00a0 Wherever they came up with an average U.S. 18-hole\u00a0 $28 green fee is beyond me.<\/p>\n<p>22.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If you can\u2019t break 100, what does it matter which equipment you play?<\/p>\n<p>23.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Does anyone really watch the Champions Tour in person besides the people sitting in the corporate hospitality tents?<\/p>\n<p>24.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Said George Peper, \u201cIf golf\u2019s leading associations had worked as hard at finding a solution to the problem of slow play as they did getting golf into the Olympics, they would have done the game far more good.\u201d\u00a0 Amen George!<\/p>\n<p>25.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Name a great golf novel.<\/p>\n<p>26.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The golf industry (facilities, equipment, and the like) is awfully good at attracting \u201cstupid money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>27.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nothing is worse than a bad caddie, if you can find any caddies at all.<\/p>\n<p>28.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The PGA of America should instruct many of its members on how to travel to the other side of the counter, smile, and shake a hand.<\/p>\n<p>29.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The better college players and developmental tours around the world, not to mention the major professional tour players have truly separated themselves from the very good scratch amateurs.\u00a0\u00a0 In earlier times, a 0-2 handicap might masquerade as a playing professional, but no longer.\u00a0 Now they have more in common playing-wise with a 8-12 handicapper than a touring professional.<\/p>\n<p>30.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cell phone users on the golf course should have their phone tossed into the nearest water hazard, and if they persist, their ears should be severed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>21.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Golf is again a game of the affluent.\u00a0 Wherever they came up with an average U.S. 18-hole\u00a0 $28 green&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/commentary\/1714\/twelve-days-of-fagan-in-my-opinion-day-3\" title=\"ReadTwelve Days of Fagan:  In My Opinion\u2026 DAY 3\">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":[504,689,4531,695],"class_list":["post-1714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","tag-pga","tag-champions-tour","tag-cell-phones","tag-olympics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714","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=1714"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4724,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions\/4724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}