{"id":1737,"date":"2010-12-29T02:18:26","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T09:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robertfagan.com\/?p=1737"},"modified":"2011-07-22T10:50:44","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T17:50:44","slug":"twelve-days-of-fagan-in-my-opinion-day-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/commentary\/1737\/twelve-days-of-fagan-in-my-opinion-day-8","title":{"rendered":"Twelve Days of Fagan: In My Opinion\u2026 DAY 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>71.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As in other sports, the old-time golf writers hid a lot of unsavory behavior about past champions, but that no longer is the case as technology and coverage have brought our hero\u2019s lives into our living rooms.<\/p>\n<p>72.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What\u2019s really new in iron designs since Karsten Solheim\u2019s Ping Eye-2s?<\/p>\n<p>73.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A good club fitting is one of the more underrated opportunities for improvement.<\/p>\n<p>74.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The PGA and LPGA members (the service providers) as a group are the <em>most<\/em> giving, least selfish collection of people I have <em>ever<\/em> encountered.<\/p>\n<p>75.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The \u201cStack &amp; Tilt\u201d golf theory may doom more golfers than the Square-to-Square Method, David Leadbetter, and Peter Kostis combined.<\/p>\n<p>76.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If the men players have the best deal with the Champions Tour, their counterparts on the women\u2019s side unfortunately have one of the worst.\u00a0 They deserve better, but unfortunately few seem to want to watch them play.<\/p>\n<p>77.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Three-hour rounds are not \u201cjackrabbit\u201d ones, and rounds of more than four-hours mean that there is either something wrong with you or the course or both.<\/p>\n<p>78.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Private club golf courses no longer are automatically superior to ones open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>79.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Water and land scarcity, costs, alternative land uses to benefit more people, and politics will doom golf as an outdoor sport in the next 125 years.\u00a0 While there <em>may<\/em> be professional competitions outdoors, most golf will be played in very sophisticated simulators.\u00a0 Only the very, very rich will play outside at private retreats like Augusta National.<\/p>\n<p>80. \u00a0 \u00a0 Too many are building golf courses designed for the \u201ctoo few!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>71.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As in other sports, the old-time golf writers hid a lot of unsavory behavior about past champions, but that&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/commentary\/1737\/twelve-days-of-fagan-in-my-opinion-day-8\" title=\"ReadTwelve Days of Fagan: In My Opinion\u2026 DAY 8\">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":[504,689,159,3185,1418,4540,499,4541,572,4542,4543],"class_list":["post-1737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","tag-pga","tag-champions-tour","tag-augusta-national","tag-stack-tilt","tag-lpga","tag-karsten-solheim","tag-ping","tag-peter-kostis","tag-david-leadbetter","tag-water","tag-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737","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=1737"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4719,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737\/revisions\/4719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}