{"id":175,"date":"2010-07-10T00:36:46","date_gmt":"2010-07-10T07:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robertfagan.com\/?p=175"},"modified":"2011-08-21T15:45:27","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T22:45:27","slug":"stroke-play-is-killing-american-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/commentary\/175\/stroke-play-is-killing-american-golf","title":{"rendered":"Stroke Play is Killing American Golf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stroke play as popularized by Americans is killing the game of golf. In many other portions of the world, the match play format is the preferred method of playing golf.<\/p>\n<p>Consider this. \u00a0Look at the four golfers after a match. In stroke play, you have four unhappy people bent over their scorecards frowning. With match play, at least two are always smiling having won their match!<\/p>\n<p>Besides, stroke play has slowed the game to a virtual crawl, as each blessed stroke is so important.\u00a0 In match play, when one is out of the hole, they pick up and move on.<\/p>\n<p>We Americans can become so anal and bottom-line oriented to lose sight of the purpose of the game, to enjoy oneself in a beautiful environment with good company, exercise, and perhaps some fun competition.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t you tire of others questioning you after a round, &#8220;What did you shoot?&#8221;\u00a0 And do they really want to hear all the details as to why our score could easily have been better?\u00a0 C&#8217;mon now!<\/p>\n<p>Players in the United Kingdom and Ireland have addressed scorekeeping and handicapping while enjoying the match play format, can&#8217;t we Americans?\u00a0 Until then, the game is taking longer and longer to play, and will continue to drive millions away from it!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Now for something different and amazing that works, refer to <a class=\"wpGallery\" title=\"Link to this page.\" href=\"http:\/\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.bobfagan.124online.com<\/a>.\u00a0 It you like it, sign up for my waiting list.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stroke play as popularized by Americans is killing the game of golf. In many other portions of the world, the&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/commentary\/175\/stroke-play-is-killing-american-golf\" title=\"ReadStroke Play is Killing American Golf\">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":[2250,2251,1787],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","tag-stroke-play","tag-medal-play","tag-american-golf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","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=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5353,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/5353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}