{"id":957222,"date":"2026-11-08T16:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T16:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/957222\/"},"modified":"2026-11-08T16:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T16:16:08","slug":"opinion-golf-has-a-drinking-problem-sober-golfers-offer-another-way-to-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/957222\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Golf has a drinking problem. Sober golfers offer another way to play."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"4PZKCRWJRFBGVAAG56JPQXJXCI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Cornelia Powers is a writer based in D.C.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"KADL64LNDRDGRAOZCEQ7R5SQ7A\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">There is a pivotal moment in \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/products\/the-legend-of-bagger-vance-steven-pressfield?variant=32115095535650\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Legend of Bagger Vance<\/a>\u201d \u2014 Steven Pressfield\u2019s novel (later made into a movie) about a despairing war hero turned golf champion, Rannulph Junuh \u2014 when Junuh\u2019s mentor, Bagger Vance, first speaks of the \u201cAuthentic Swing.\u201d Based loosely on the character of \u201cBhagavan\u201d from the Bhagavad Vita, Vance likens the golfer\u2019s search for the Authentic Swing to a person\u2019s search for the authentic self. The two experiences often intertwine, he says, making golf not only \u201ca metaphor for the soul\u2019s search for its true ground and identity\u201d but also an instrument through which to \u201crecall that soul and become it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cornelia Powers is a writer based in D.C. There is a pivotal moment in \u201cThe Legend of Bagger&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":957223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-957222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/957223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}