{"id":405325,"date":"2025-09-07T13:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T13:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/405325\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T13:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T13:26:10","slug":"the-oxford-golfing-four-ball-with-80000-rounds-between-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/405325\/","title":{"rendered":"The Oxford golfing four-ball with 80,000 rounds between them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Having joined the club in the same year that Anthony Eden resigned as prime minister, Mr White said &#8220;so much has changed in that time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The landscape, the clubhouse, the sport itself \u2013 it&#8217;s remarkable to think I&#8217;ve been a member here for almost 70 years,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On what had kept him playing for so long, he said: &#8220;Friendships, associations and challenges.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Every round of golf is different, you play the same course, but you never play it the same way,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When asked what advice the quartet would give to young players, Mr Digweed said the best he had received in his 57 years of golfing came from his first coach at Oxford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He said I would be okay as long as I hit my bad shots straight,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That was great advice, and has stuck with me!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Having joined the club in the same year that Anthony Eden resigned as prime minister, Mr White said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4106],"tags":[2826,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-405325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115163246476576166","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405325","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=405325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}