{"id":5001,"date":"2020-01-30T13:00:03","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thegolfshoponline.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5001\/"},"modified":"2020-01-30T13:00:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T13:00:03","slug":"byron-nelson-golfs-winning-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thegolfshoponline.co.uk\/blog\/byron-nelson-golfs-winning-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Byron Nelson: Golf\u2019s Winning Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"richsummary\">\n<p id=\"abstract\">Byron Nelson was the first man to win 50 PGA tour events, and he won 11 straight in 1945. Byron became a golfing legend and he wasn&#8217;t even supposed to make it past birth. Byron was exposed to rabies as a child, and he got typhoid fever where he nearly died. He began caddying at age 12 and started playing for money in 1932. Byron Nelson was a golfing legend and was one of the first major stars of the sport.<\/p>\n<p id=\"takeawayheader\">Key Takeaways:<\/p>\n<ul id=\"takeaways\">\n<li id=\"takeaway1\">Byron Nelson once won 11 consecutive tournaments on his way to becoming the first man to achieve 50 PGA Tour wins.<\/li>\n<li id=\"takeaway2\">After winning the Masters in 1937, Nelson acquired the nickname &#8220;Lord Byron.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li id=\"takeaway3\">Nelson won five Majors, but the tally would have been higher if not for the disruption of World War 2 and his early retirement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"quote\">&#8220;He was one of the greatest golfers of all time but retired from full-time competitive play aged 34 to become a rancher.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"readmoretext\">Read more: <\/span><a id=\"source\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golf-monthly.co.uk\/features\/the-game\/byron-nelson-golfs-winning-machine-190195\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.golf-monthly.co.uk\/features\/the-game\/byron-nelson-golfs-winning-machine-190195<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Byron Nelson was the first man to win 50 PGA tour events, and he won 11 straight in 1945. Byron became a golfing legend and he wasn&#8217;t even supposed to make it past birth. Byron was exposed to rabies as a child, and he got typhoid fever where he nearly died. He began caddying at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[159],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegolfshoponline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5001"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegolfshoponline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegolfshoponline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5002,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegolfshoponline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5001\/revisions\/5002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegolfshoponline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegolfshoponline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegolfshoponline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}