{"id":1977,"date":"2016-07-20T04:49:02","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T11:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/?p=1977"},"modified":"2016-07-20T04:49:02","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T11:49:02","slug":"the-problem-with-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=1977","title":{"rendered":"The Problem with Golf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150118.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150118.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x1501\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1978\" \/><\/a>In my first golf lesson in 50 years, I hit four beauties\u2014they went straight, high and long and made Casey the golf pro smile (he was working wonders with this old man).<\/p>\n<p>The problem is I hit a total of 50 balls. Twelve of them (triple the number of beauties) dribbled a few feet off the tee. One hit a goose (no, that\u2019s not a golfing term\u2014a real goose).<\/p>\n<p>And therein lies the problem with golf, and the reason I\u2019ve tried to avoid it for most of my adult life.<\/p>\n<p>If one manages to write a beautiful sentence, chances are another one is close behind. And more will follow. At least few will look like a first-grader wrote them.<\/p>\n<p>Not so with golf.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo what went wrong with that one\u201d?  I said to Casey the golf pro.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour back swing was too close to your body.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd that one?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour back foot didn\u2019t pivot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat about that one?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou raised up. Keep those knees bent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And so the conversation went. There are over 40 ways (seriously, I counted) one can mess up a golf swing.<\/p>\n<p>And that, friends, is the problem with golf.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I\u2019m going back. Sanity has never been a strong suit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my first golf lesson in 50 years, I hit four beauties\u2014they went straight, high and long and made Casey the golf pro smile (he was working wonders with this old man). The problem is I hit a total of 50 balls. Twelve of them (triple the number of beauties) dribbled a few feet off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1979,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions\/1979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}