{"id":8302,"date":"2025-04-06T08:56:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T15:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=8302"},"modified":"2025-04-06T08:56:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T15:56:50","slug":"dave-pelz-1939-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/dave-pelz-1939-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Pelz (1939-2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Pelz, renowned short game and putting researcher and teacher, died on March 23rd of prostate cancer. He was 85 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Pelz played collegiate golf at Indiana University, with a record of 0-22 against an Ohio State golfeer named Jack Nicklaus.<\/p>\n<p>A physics major, Pelz worked for NASA for 15 years before leaving to devote his life to the game of golf.<\/p>\n<p>His researches changed the way professional golfers play today, most importantly the four-wedge bag setup that made Tom Kite the career leading money winner on the PGA Tour for a time.<\/p>\n<p>Read his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/05\/sports\/golf\/dave-pelz-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9k4.eQsq.5B7n9sSxJAWM&#038;smid=url-share\">New York Times obituary<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Pelz, renowned short game and putting researcher and teacher, died on March 23rd of prostate cancer. He was 85 years old. Pelz played collegiate golf at Indiana University, with a record of 0-22 against an Ohio State golfeer named Jack Nicklaus. A physics major, Pelz worked for NASA for 15 years before leaving to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/dave-pelz-1939-2025\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dave Pelz (1939-2025)<\/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":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-29U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8302","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=8302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8303,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8302\/revisions\/8303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}