{"id":495,"date":"2010-08-06T21:49:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T21:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=495"},"modified":"2019-05-02T14:13:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T21:13:17","slug":"hole-in-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/hole-in-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Hole-in-one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to blog today about an analysis of tournament strength in this week&#8217;s <i>Golf World<\/i> magazine. I&#8217;ll write about that tomorrow. Something else came up.<\/p>\n<p>I got a hole-in-one today. My first in 49 years of playing golf. I&#8217;ve sunk irons from the fairway before, but never from the tee. <\/p>\n<p>It was at the Auburn Golf Course in Salem, Oregon, and executive course, on the 6th hole, 58 yards, with a pitching wedge.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I know. 58 yards. But that doesn&#8217;t make it any easier. And there&#8217;s still a 1 on the scorecard.<\/p>\n<p>So. Along with my birdie on the Road Hole (I&#8217;ll tell you about that sometime), I have a few things to talk about when someone asks me what my best shot ever was. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to blog today about an analysis of tournament strength in this week&#8217;s Golf World magazine. I&#8217;ll write about that tomorrow. Something else came up. I got a hole-in-one today. My first in 49 years of playing golf. I&#8217;ve sunk irons from the fairway before, but never from the tee. It was at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/hole-in-one\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hole-in-one<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-golf-stories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-7Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3795,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/3795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}