{"id":20746,"date":"2012-12-04T13:45:36","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T13:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/tom-watson-against-golf-being-in-the-olympics\/"},"modified":"2012-12-04T13:45:36","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T13:45:36","slug":"tom-watson-against-golf-being-in-the-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/tom-watson-against-golf-being-in-the-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Watson against golf being in the Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-2429\" src=\"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.holaincompany.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Jugadores_tom-watson.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"450\" style=\"float: left;margin-right:10px;\"><\/p>\n<p>Tom Watson, an eight-time major champion, says golf has no place in the Olympics.The veteran American golfer, who is in Sydney to play the Australian Open for the first time since he won that tournament in 1984, said he does not support golf\u2019s return to the Olympics for 2016.<\/p>\n<p>I still think the Olympics is athletics, not golf, to be honest,\u201d Watson said. \u201cI don\u2019t want to throw cold water on this, but I don\u2019t think golf should be part of the Olympics. \u201cGolf was played at the Paris Olympics in 1900 and the St. Louis Olympics in 1904.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the future ban on body-anchored putters, Watson said that this way of playing the putter \u201cis not a golf stroke, but I have mixed emotions, because my son Michael could not putt from a meter with a conventional putter, and with a belly putter he can putt anything.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s probably talking like a dinosaur,\u201d the great American goflist said.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Watson, an eight-time major champion, says golf has no place in the Olympics.The veteran American golfer, who is in Sydney to play the Australian Open for the first time since he won that tournament in 1984, said he does not support golf\u2019s return to the Olympics for 2016. I still think the Olympics is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}