{"id":369,"date":"2011-07-26T18:19:09","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T23:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomharack.com\/?p=369"},"modified":"2011-08-04T15:02:12","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T20:02:12","slug":"ballybunion-benefits-by-comparison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/golf\/369\/ballybunion-benefits-by-comparison","title":{"rendered":"Ballybunion Benefits By Comparison"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_436\" style=\"width: 586px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2011\/08\/BallybunionOld-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-436\" class=\"size-full wp-image-436\" src=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2011\/08\/BallybunionOld-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"461\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-436\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ballybunion Old&#039;s trademark 11th hole. Photo copyright Henebry Photography.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Golf Road Warriors have vastly different positions on any number of things, but one thing we agree on: Our dispatches from Ireland won\u2019t include copious descriptions of how well or badly we happen to be playing the colossal courses on the itinerary.<\/p>\n<p>A cursory synopsis, however, indicates that two of us have been playing well, the other two badly. But a welcome mitigating yardstick is that the difficult tracks we\u2019ve been playing made going around Ballybunion \u2013 ranked 18<sup>th- <\/sup>-best in the world, according to a 2009 survey in <em>Golf Magazine<\/em> &#8212; this afternoon seem \u201ceasy,\u201d even for the struggling twosome.<\/p>\n<p>True, it was, according to Ballybunion\u2019s starter, the best day so far this year, weather-wise: brilliant sunshine, temperatures around 80\u00ba F, breezes around 10 MPH. Still, the course seemed decidedly copasetic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"># # #<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Golf Road Warriors have vastly different positions on any number of things, but one thing we agree on: Our&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/golf\/369\/ballybunion-benefits-by-comparison\" title=\"ReadBallybunion Benefits By Comparison\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":436,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,2226,5353,39217,85174,17],"tags":[414,90361],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golf","category-perrygolf","category-tourism-ireland","category-golf-road-warriors","category-adams-golf","category-courses-and-travel","tag-ireland","tag-ballybunion-golf-club"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2011\/08\/BallybunionOld-11.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","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=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}