{"id":273,"date":"2010-08-16T06:54:08","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T13:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/?p=273"},"modified":"2010-08-16T06:54:08","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T13:54:08","slug":"more-evidence-that-golf-is-not-a-real-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/?p=273","title":{"rendered":"More Evidence That Golf Is Not a Real Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pro golfer <a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/gameon\/post\/2010\/08\/eye-opener-ruling-on-dustin-johnson-fair-or-foul-at-pga-championship\/1\">Dustin Johnson <\/a>was denied a chance to participate in a playoff for the PGA Championship yesterday because he was penalized two strokes for grounding his club in a bunker on the 18th hole. It&#8217;s true that every sport has its rules, but many of golf&#8217;s anal retentive rules and strict enforcement of them lessens the value of the sport. Violations such as grounding a club in a bunker or failing to sign a scorecard have no effect on the playing of the sport itself. As I&#8217;ve noted in many articles in the past (see my Articles section), golf is not a real sport, since it doesn&#8217;t involve running, jumping, and other physical prowess. It&#8217;s more like a skill, such as darts, billiards, and shuffleboard. What is your opinion of this ruling and of golf itself?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retrojunk.com\/img\/art-images\/caddyshack.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro golfer Dustin Johnson was denied a chance to participate in a playoff for the PGA Championship yesterday because he was penalized two strokes for grounding his club in a bunker on the 18th hole. It&#8217;s true that every sport &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/?p=273\">Continue reading <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}