{"id":1755,"date":"2008-01-08T11:36:10","date_gmt":"2008-01-08T18:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1755"},"modified":"2008-01-08T11:36:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-08T18:36:00","slug":"the-sultan-of-swing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1755","title":{"rendered":"The Sultan of Swing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/flick.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/flick.jpg','popup','width=220,height=336,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/flick-tm.jpg\" height=\"152\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Flick\" \/><\/a>One of the best golf teachers in the world, <strong>Jim Flick<\/strong>, 77, is now offering up his knowledge five-and-a-half days a week at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taylormadegolf.com\/home.asp\" target=\"_blank\">TaylorMade Golf&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> Carlsbad headquarters.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 1990, a struggling and frustrated <strong>Jack Nicklaus<\/strong> solicited some advice from Flick on the driving range before the Golden Bear&#8217;s Champions Tour debut. Something clicked with Flick. Nicklaus won the tournament, and he and Flick have worked together ever since.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In 2002 Flick was named as the ninth member of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.golfonline.com\/golfonline\/instruction\/teachers\/article\/0,17742,469245,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Golf Teachers Hall of Fame<\/a><\/strong>. If only we&#8217;d played golf. At $300 an hour we&#8217;re sure we could tune up our swings, no doubt. Click the link for the rest of the Jim Flick profile.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/sports\/golf\/20080108-9999-1s8pagefore.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best golf teachers in the world, Jim Flick, 77, is now offering up his knowledge five-and-a-half days a week at TaylorMade Golf&#8217;s Carlsbad headquarters. In 1990, a struggling and frustrated Jack Nicklaus solicited some advice from Flick on the driving range before the Golden Bear&#8217;s Champions Tour debut. Something clicked with Flick. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}