{"id":193987,"date":"2025-06-18T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T09:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/193987\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T09:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T09:00:12","slug":"the-irish-man-who-went-from-golf-pro-to-dentist-all-people-who-become-professionals-have-dreams-of-greatness-then-you-see-the-level-of-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/193987\/","title":{"rendered":"The Irish man who went from golf-pro to dentist: \u2018All people who become professionals have dreams of greatness. Then you see the level of competition\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nIn 2004, Chris Hogg became a pro golfer. But the reality was far from the dream and, after a cancer diagnosis, he walked away, then used the resilience he\u2019d learned on the course to pursue a new career in dentistry\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1750237212_438_video.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">&#8216;My dream was to become a golf professional, until a big shock &#8211; I was diagnosed with cancer&#8217;: Dr Chris Hogg <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">On the walls of Chris Hogg\u2019s Dublin dental surgery, there are two framed certificates. One says Chris Hogg \u2013 PGA Professional (2004), the other certificate has his dentistry qualifications (2017). How does a member of the Professional Golfers\u2019 Association go on to become a dentist? And why?<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The 46-year-old married father of two has lived several lives. His is the story of how a young boy followed his dream of becoming a professional golfer, pursued it and then changed his mind. When major obstacles came his way, he went back to the drawing board and came up with a new life plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2004, Chris Hogg became a pro golfer. But the reality was far from the dream and, after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4106],"tags":[2826,79124,4298,4287,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-193987","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-life-magazine","10":"tag-pga-tour","11":"tag-rory-mcilroy","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114703553330671324","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}