{"id":131,"date":"2012-07-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/?p=131"},"modified":"2013-02-04T15:41:27","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T15:41:27","slug":"giving-golf-second-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/giving-golf-second-chance.html","title":{"rendered":"Giving Golf A Second Chance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/thCARVH6NS3.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"138\" width=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/golfstinks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/thCARVH6NS2.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span>The old second chance.\u00a0 Many people deserve it.\u00a0 Few get it.\u00a0 But what about golf?\u00a0 How many people do you think quit the game and leave it behind for good?\u00a0 I&#8217;ll bet it&#8217;s a much higher number than the\u00a0people who quit the game and come back.\u00a0 But\u00a0I recently read an article about a man who plans on\u00a0doing just that.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This particular gentleman gave up the game back in high school.\u00a0 Now that in itself is kind of strange, being that it seems to be the time when many are being introduced to the game.\u00a0 It was for me.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t start playing in high school, but I had a part-time\u00a0job at a local golf course, which is where\u00a0I first discovered the driving range.\u00a0 But that&#8217;s about as deep into golf as I got until my mid-20&#8217;s.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But as we&#8217;ve\u00a0mentioned before, sometimes <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/golfstinks.blogspot.com\/2012\/05\/life-gets-in-way-of-golf.html\"><span>life gets in the way of golf<\/span><\/a><span>.\u00a0 It does for most of us.\u00a0 There&#8217;s always something to do that keeps us away from this great game.\u00a0 And once we get pulled away from the course for a significant amount of time, many of us never go back.\u00a0 But thankfully, some of us do.\u00a0 Our writer realized after several failed home improvement projects, that he needed something else to\u00a0do with his free time.\u00a0 So, looking for something more social, enter&#8230;or&#8230;re-enter golf.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>So now, he&#8217;s faced with some of the the decisions with which many of us were faced\u00a0when we first took up the game &#8211; 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