{"id":5239,"date":"2020-09-26T16:26:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T23:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=5239"},"modified":"2020-09-26T19:29:33","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T02:29:33","slug":"farewell-to-the-redlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/farewell-to-the-redlines\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell to the Redlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ten years go I <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/new-set-of-irons-2\/\">bought a used set of irons<\/a>, Ben Hogan Apex Redline from 1989. <\/p>\n<p>They are wonderful clubs, probably the best irons the Hogan brand made. <\/p>\n<p>I played wonderful golf with them. These are the irons that helped me get to single digits. <\/p>\n<p>But to get to the point, they have to be put away. I got them off eBay, and everything on eBay has a Stiff shaft. Ten years ago I could swing a Stiff shaft. Now, I can&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>I went to the range a few days ago with the 6-iron and had to work so hard just to get a passable shot out of it. It shouldn&#8217;t have been that difficult.<\/p>\n<p>Today I went to the range again and took the 6-iron from the set of 1999 Apexes, which were custom built for me in 2003 and have Regular shafts. <\/p>\n<p>It was like night and day. They swung easily, smoothly, they worked with me. They&#8217;re in the bag, the Redlines are out.<\/p>\n<p>So farewell to old friends. I knew that someday I would have to switch back to the 1999s again, and that day has arrived. <\/p>\n<p>But not to worry. I hit this killer fade with them that is going to make flagsticks very afraid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten years go I bought a used set of irons, Ben Hogan Apex Redline from 1989. They are wonderful clubs, probably the best irons the Hogan brand made. I played wonderful golf with them. These are the irons that helped me get to single digits. But to get to the point, they have to be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/farewell-to-the-redlines\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Farewell to the Redlines<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equipment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-1mv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5239","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=5239"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5242,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5239\/revisions\/5242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}