{"id":2063,"date":"2019-11-12T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thegolfshoponline.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2063"},"modified":"2020-03-10T12:18:17","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T12:18:17","slug":"getting-golf-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thegolfshoponline.co.uk\/blog\/getting-golf-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Golf Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People are talking about ways to make golf better all the time nowadays, but some say that the way to \u201cfix\u201d the sport is as simple as nipping annoying behaviors in the bud. They say it&#8217;s those little things that annoy pretty much everybody that will save time and aggravation on the links.<\/p>\n<p>Taking too many practice swings, for example. There&#8217;s not reason for it. After about three you should be able to get in with the swing of things- anything more and we all know you&#8217;re about to slam that ball into the rough.<\/p>\n<p>Shouting \u201cget in the hole\u201d like you&#8217;re Happy Gilmore or any other way, way overused golf movie reference should be banned. No one really likes it. It&#8217;s old news and shows poor sportsmanship overall.<\/p>\n<p>Penalties for phone use while not in the cart- we can call it delay of game- should definitely be considered. Nothing is worse then playing a round with someone more interested with what&#8217;s on their screen than what&#8217;s in front of them.<\/p>\n<p>For more on annoyance rules read this funny (yet persuasive) article here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bunkersparadise.com\/42047\/top-7-new-rules-to-make-golf-better-the-unexpected\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Top 7 New Rules to Make Golf Better: The Unexpected.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are some ways we can tweak the way we play to make the game for fun for everyone that literally everyone can get behind. See some here. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[159,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegolfshoponline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegolfshoponline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegolfshoponline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegolfshoponline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegolfshoponline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2063"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegolfshoponline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5186,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegolfshoponline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063\/revisions\/5186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegolfshoponline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegolfshoponline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegolfshoponline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}