{"id":5682,"date":"2021-05-18T12:14:35","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T19:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=5682"},"modified":"2021-05-18T16:17:50","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T23:17:50","slug":"kiawah-island-flyover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/kiawah-island-flyover\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiawah Island Flyover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spend eleven minutes watching this video titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nTOIEPp7xeo\">Every Hole at Kiawah Island<\/a>, where the PGA Championship will be played this weekend. <\/p>\n<p>If I were to play this course, I would probably need to have three dozen golf balls in the bag, and I&#8217;m not a golfer who normally loses golf balls. <\/p>\n<p>(Note the shadow of the drone in the first few holes.)<\/p>\n<p>It has recently been said that the Old Course at St. Andrews, elevation above sea level = not very much, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfdigest.com\/story\/st-andrews-climate-change-underwater-study\">could be underwater by 2050<\/a>. (If the former Golfer-in-Chief wants to build a wall to create a legacy for himself, building one here would do the trick. Not to mention, about two miles instead of several thousand. Just sayin&#8217;.)<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how much longer this very low-lying Ocean Course will last?<\/p>\n<p>Pronounce it KEY-uh-wuh.<\/p>\n<p>Read this article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.morningread.com\/where-to-golf-next\/feature\/2021-05-17\/what-everyday-golfers-can-expect-during-an-ocean-course-round\">how it plays for the amateurs<\/a> who make the trek. <\/p>\n<p>Note to self: Don&#8217;t make the trek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spend eleven minutes watching this video titled Every Hole at Kiawah Island, where the PGA Championship will be played this weekend. If I were to play this course, I would probably need to have three dozen golf balls in the bag, and I&#8217;m not a golfer who normally loses golf balls. (Note the shadow of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/kiawah-island-flyover\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kiawah Island Flyover<\/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":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-golf-courses"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-1tE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5682","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=5682"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5697,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5682\/revisions\/5697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}