{"id":222,"date":"2023-02-25T00:23:31","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T00:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dickjones.us\/GolfTravels\/?p=222"},"modified":"2023-02-25T00:25:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T00:25:43","slug":"dont-be-fooled-by-length","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dickjones.us\/GolfTravels\/dont-be-fooled-by-length\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Be Fooled by Length"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Golf courses are often defined by it&#8217;s overall length. The pros are always playing courses greater than 7000 yards. But, they also routinely hit 300-yard drives. Recreation golfers consider courses challenging at around 6000 yards. As a senior golfer, I am often moving up to tees shorter than 6000. While in Florida, I found a Palm Beach County course I had not previously played named <a href=\"https:\/\/golfclubofjupiter.com\">Golf Club of Jupiter<\/a>. The course offers five sets of tees ranging from 4000 yards to 5700 yards with the typical white tees measuring 5000 yards.  The course is a par 70 with 6 par 3 holes. Some golfers might choose to skip this course because it is not quite conventional and might not be as challenging.  First, the course was in very good condition &#8211; fairways and greens. Staff was very efficient and welcoming.  I frequently saw rangers and cart girls on the course. The course is sandwiched within an older housing development, thus shorter than typical yardage.  Despite the length, this is a good test of golf.  You will likely use all of the clubs (and maybe golf balls) in your bag. Trees, water, and out-of-bounds white stakes line most of the fairways. Doglegs and sand traps force you to be consistent in your yardage. Playing here is a delightful test of golf and I look forward to playing it again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dickjones.us\/GolfTravels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_0231-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dickjones.us\/GolfTravels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_0231-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/www.dickjones.us\/GolfTravels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_0231-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Golf Club of Jupiter 17th hole<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Golf courses are often defined by it&#8217;s overall length. The pros are always playing courses greater than 7000 yards. But, they also routinely hit 300-yard drives. Recreation golfers consider courses challenging at around 6000 yards. As a senior golfer, I am often moving up to tees shorter than 6000. While in Florida, I found a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dickjones.us\/GolfTravels\/dont-be-fooled-by-length\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Don&#8217;t Be Fooled by Length<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickjones.us\/GolfTravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickjones.us\/GolfTravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickjones.us\/GolfTravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickjones.us\/GolfTravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickjones.us\/GolfTravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickjones.us\/GolfTravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickjones.us\/GolfTravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickjones.us\/GolfTravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickjones.us\/GolfTravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickjones.us\/GolfTravels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}