{"id":1254378,"date":"2024-11-06T17:45:46","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T17:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/?p=1254378"},"modified":"2024-11-06T21:08:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T21:08:00","slug":"albuquerque-golfs-ground-floor-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/albuquerque-golfs-ground-floor-rising\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf’s ground floor rising"},"content":{"rendered":"
Albuquerque, New Mexico<\/em><\/strong>. One of the virtues in covering golf is the need to travel on a constant basis to see up close how the sport is doing. Seeing firsthand how the game is evolving in the post pandemic time frame completes the questions needing answers.<\/p>\n My personal genesis in golf came through my father. Born in the Bronx, NY, he introduced me to the game via Van Cortlandt Park \u2014 the oldest public course (1895) in the United States.<\/p>\n When playing Van Cortlandt, you soon found out that grass grew by accident \u2014 not by design. One needed a literal hammer getting a tee into the ground. No exaggeration. The quality of the putting greens? Try a full shoulder turn in getting a six-foot putt to the hole.<\/p>\n Municipal golf at that time, to be kind, was bare bones in all senses.<\/p>\n