{"id":354,"date":"2011-07-19T07:27:20","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T12:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomharack.com\/?p=354"},"modified":"2011-07-19T08:25:23","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T13:25:23","slug":"ireland-visits-demand-special-preparation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/golf\/354\/ireland-visits-demand-special-preparation","title":{"rendered":"Ireland Visits Demand Special Preparation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_357\" style=\"width: 586px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2011\/07\/EnniscroneGC-162.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-357\" class=\"size-full wp-image-357\" src=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2011\/07\/EnniscroneGC-162.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"461\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-357\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 16th hole at Enniscrone. Photo credit: Henebry Photography<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Experienced golf travelers pretty much have the drill down: secure the passport, clean the clubs, check the golf ball supply, and so forth. A couple of days ago, though, I received a reminder that a trip to the northwest of Ireland \u2013 where three other A Position writers and I begin a 10-day excursion on Thursday \u2013 requires a bit of emotional preparation, too.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This reminder came in the form of a representative sample of images of some of the courses we\u2019ll be playing, courtesy of Jeannine and John Henebry, renowned for their photos of golf architecture around the world. A number of these frames brought to mind a remark by the writer Richard Ford, who noted (I paraphrase here) that some Irish landscapes are gorgeous enough to make you cry.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a characteristic shared, to some degree, by the area of upstate New York, near the Berkshires, where I live, and it\u2019s part of the reason I chose the locale. The atmospherics here have lately been spectacular \u2013 a warm-up, if you will, for some of the vistas in store for us.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"># # #<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experienced golf travelers pretty much have the drill down: secure the passport, clean the clubs, check the golf ball supply,&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/golf\/354\/ireland-visits-demand-special-preparation\" title=\"ReadIreland Visits Demand Special Preparation\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":355,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2226,3729,5353,39217,85174,17],"tags":[414,90339],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golf","category-perrygolf","category-golf-travel","category-tourism-ireland","category-golf-road-warriors","category-adams-golf","category-courses-and-travel","tag-ireland","tag-northwest-ireland"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2011\/07\/EnniscroneGC-16.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}