{"id":100777,"date":"2025-08-29T12:36:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T12:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/100777\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T12:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T12:36:11","slug":"cringleford-care-home-guests-try-golf-at-norwich-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/100777\/","title":{"rendered":"Cringleford care home guests try golf at Norwich course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Terence Lloyd, 82, Vincenzo Gargiulo, 79, and Nihal Goonetilleke, 84, from Cavell Court in Cringleford, spent their first-ever day on the green\u00a0at Norwich Family Golf Centre thanks to Care UK\u2019s Wishing Tree initiative.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Lloyd said: &#8220;It was a lovely day.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;When we arrived, everything was set up and ready to go.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eveningnews24.co.uk\/news\/25416124.10cc-bringing-greatest-hits-tour-norwich-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chart-topping rock band coming to Norwich on greatest hits tour<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;The instructor was brilliant; he was clear and helpful.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I really enjoyed myself and would definitely do it again.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The trio enjoyed golf buggy rides, time on the driving range\u00a0and lunch in the clubhouse.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Gargiulo, who has a long-standing love of sport, tried golf for the first time.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He said: &#8220;It was lovely to be able to be given the chance to try a new sport.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Who would have thought at 79 I\u2019d be enjoying golf for the first time?&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Their outing was part of the Wishing Tree programme, which helps residents revisit old hobbies and experience new activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terence Lloyd, 82, Vincenzo Gargiulo, 79, and Nihal Goonetilleke, 84, from Cavell Court in Cringleford, spent their first-ever&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-100777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}