{"id":1805,"date":"2013-11-20T22:34:19","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T03:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2013\/11\/20\/shooting-his-age-at-pinehurst-no-2\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T19:34:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T00:34:03","slug":"shooting-his-age-at-pinehurst-no-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/shooting-his-age-at-pinehurst-no-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting his age at Pinehurst No. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9214\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/mo-owens-pinehurst.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9214\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9214 lazyload\" alt=\"Dr. M.O. Owens '33 plays Pinehurst No. 2. (Photo by David Belle Isle)\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/mo-owens-pinehurst.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"287\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 250px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 250\/287;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9214\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. M.O. Owens &#8217;33 plays Pinehurst No. 2. (Photo by David Belle Isle)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>At what age is it too late to quit chasing your golf dreams? For Dr. M.O. Owens, a 1933 Furman graduate and retired Gastonia, N.C., pastor, it\u2019s never too late. Owens, who attended his 80th class reunion at Furman in November, recently celebrated his 100th birthday with a round of golf at famed Pinehurst No. 2 in North Carolina, which will host both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s U.S. Opens\u00a0 in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at the PGA of America <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pga.com\/news\/spirit-golf\/100-year-old-plays-pinehurst-first-time\"><strong>website<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At what age is it too late to quit chasing your golf dreams? For Dr. M.O. Owens, a 1933 Furman graduate and retired Gastonia, N.C., pastor, it\u2019s never too late. Owens, who attended his 80th class reunion at Furman in November, recently celebrated his 100th birthday with a round of golf at famed Pinehurst No. 2 in North Carolina, which will host both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s U.S. Opens\u00a0 in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}