{"id":108,"date":"2012-08-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/?p=108"},"modified":"2013-02-04T15:41:17","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T15:41:17","slug":"chip-shots-golf-ball-thievery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/chip-shots-golf-ball-thievery.html","title":{"rendered":"Chip Shots: Golf Ball Thievery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>One of my first memories of being on a golf course was not to play the game.\u00a0 Rather, I was there for much more sinister reasons.\u00a0 I was a young, foolish kid hanging out with another young foolish kid.\u00a0 The other foolish kid, let&#8217;s call him Matt (actually, that was his name), coerced me into causing a bit of trouble on the local links.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>I remember it still clearly to this day.\u00a0 We hid in the woods just steps away from one of the greens.\u00a0 A ball lands\u00a0by the pin\u00a0and Matt hustles out, steals the ball and rushes\u00a0back to the woods.\u00a0\u00a0At the time, I thought it was funny as hell!\u00a0 Then we tried it one more time.\u00a0\u00a0We were spotted and ran for our lives.\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t fun anymore.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Looking back, it was a pretty idiotic thing to do.\u00a0 And with the amount of times I lose a ball on the\u00a0course that I&#8217;m sure landed perfectly in the fairway, it seems as if the gods of golf karma are giving it back to me double.\u00a0 But hey, it could have been worse.\u00a0 How, you ask?\u00a0 I could have been these guys&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0  <\/span><\/p>\n<div><span>OK, so it looks a bit staged.\u00a0 But still pretty ballsy, no?<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>Swing &#8217;til you&#8217;re happy!<\/span><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my first memories of being on a golf course was not to play the game.\u00a0 Rather, I was there for much more sinister reasons.\u00a0 I was a young, foolish kid hanging out with another young foolish kid.\u00a0 The other foolish kid, let&#8217;s call him Matt (actually, that was his name), coerced me into [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[127,22,19,409],"class_list":{"0":"post-108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-chip-shots","8":"tag-golf-stinks","9":"tag-golfstinks","10":"tag-stealing-golf-balls","11":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Chip Shots: Golf Ball Thievery &#8226; 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