{"id":6304,"date":"2022-03-17T06:18:28","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T13:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=6304"},"modified":"2022-03-17T06:20:06","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T13:20:06","slug":"usga-to-roll-back-distance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/usga-to-roll-back-distance\/","title":{"rendered":"USGA to Roll Back Distance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I get several golf newsletters in my e-mail every morning. Today there is an article in the <em>Golf Digest<\/em> newsletter about the USGA making plans to roll back distance of &#8220;elite male players&#8221; by altering the characteristics of the ball.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfdigest.com\/story\/usga-signals-a-significant-step-toward-curtailing-distance?utm_medium=email&#038;utm_source=031722&#038;utm_campaign=newsandtours&#038;utm_content=DM26062&#038;uuid=b09cd5d1-fa7c-49f3-928a-e2fb47f21cfb\">Read it here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also, the Saudi League is going to start up anyway, though I don&#8217;t know where they will get any players of interest. They are certainly throwing LOTS of money at the project.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfdigest.com\/story\/liv-golf-announce-schedule-2022?utm_medium=email&#038;utm_source=031722&#038;utm_campaign=newsandtours&#038;utm_content=DM26062&#038;uuid=b09cd5d1-fa7c-49f3-928a-e2fb47f21cfb\">Read it here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/golf\/news\/saudi-backed-golf-league-announces-2022-schedule-with-four-us-events\">tournament schedule is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get several golf newsletters in my e-mail every morning. Today there is an article in the Golf Digest newsletter about the USGA making plans to roll back distance of &#8220;elite male players&#8221; by altering the characteristics of the ball. Read it here. Also, the Saudi League is going to start up anyway, though I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/usga-to-roll-back-distance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">USGA to Roll Back Distance<\/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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-1DG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6304","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=6304"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6306,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6304\/revisions\/6306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}