{"id":800,"date":"2020-08-24T06:20:21","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T06:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/?p=800"},"modified":"2020-08-24T06:20:21","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T06:20:21","slug":"500-courses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/2020\/08\/24\/500-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"500 Courses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/500-courses.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"430\" height=\"324\" title=\"500 courses\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"500 courses\" src=\"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/500-courses_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#008000\">500! Five hundred dog-friendly golf courses identified and added to the Dog Golf UK database (plus <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/2017\/07\/11\/manor-of-groves\/\"><font color=\"#008000\">Manor of Groves<\/font><\/a><font color=\"#008000\"> which is no longer dog golfing). Coincidentally, the Roman numeral for 500 is \u201cD\u201d (for dogs).<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#008000\">I\u2019ve recently noted that most golf courses now have Facebook pages and those pages include \u201cContact\u201d buttons. I thought I would try reaching a few clubs that never responded to my emails through this route (maybe courses are more attentive to their Facebook messages than their emails). I have proceeded to message about 16 per day (that\u2019s the limit of the number of messages that Facebook allows one to send at a go) and have been getting several replies back. Some are confirming that dogs are prohibited, but a good number of new dog-friendly courses have been identified and promptly added to the database.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#008000\">The whole Facebook exercise has uncovered a number of added curious statistics which I will share when I am finished with the research (I have about 150 courses left to contact), but I thought I would call out the milestone that Dog Golf UK has hit the 500 mark in the number of dog-friendly courses listed.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#008000\">We\u2019ve only played 69 of those so lots left to discover. We have played pretty much all of the dog friendly courses within an hour\u2019s driving radius of our home in Wycombe except for:<\/font><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><font color=\"#008000\"><b>M25 Northeast courses<\/b> (3) \u2013 Close to our daughter\u2019s house so we will hit them in conjunction with visits to see her.<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#008000\"><b>West\/South London courses<\/b> (3) \u2013 Close to our son\u2019s house so we will hit them in conjunction with visits to see him.<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#008000\">E<strong>xpensive courses<\/strong> (ie. Stoke Poges, Denham, Sunningdale, Swinley Forest) \u2013 Just a bit too rich for our already stretched budget on this project.<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><font color=\"#008000\">Furthermore, we\u2019ve hit a few more far-flung locations in Cornwall, Norwich, Dorset and Hampshire in conjunction with some visits to friends.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#008000\">And I would walk 500 courses\u2026of course with canine companion caddie.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>500! Five hundred dog-friendly golf courses identified and added to the Dog Golf UK database (plus Manor of Groves which is no longer dog golfing). Coincidentally, the Roman numeral for 500 is \u201cD\u201d (for dogs). I\u2019ve recently noted that most golf courses now have Facebook pages and those pages include \u201cContact\u201d buttons. I thought I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":801,"href":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions\/801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}