{"id":9613,"date":"2021-10-29T17:52:41","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T17:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2021\/11\/01\/dottie-pepper-87-reflects-on-mentor-george-pulver-in-sports-illustrated\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:44:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:44:20","slug":"dottie-pepper-87-reflects-on-mentor-george-pulver-in-sports-illustrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/dottie-pepper-87-reflects-on-mentor-george-pulver-in-sports-illustrated\/","title":{"rendered":"Dottie Pepper &#8217;87 reflects on mentor George Pulver in Sports Illustrated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/golf\/news\/letters-that-were-about-more-than-golf\">In<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/golf\/news\/letters-that-were-about-more-than-golf\">the first of a two-part series in Sports Illustrated<\/a>, two-time major champion Dottie Pepper \u201987 writes about the mentoring that George J. Pulver, a PGA professional, gave her for several years beginning when she was 14.<\/p>\n<p>The letters are compiled in a self-published book, \u201cLetters to a Future Champion: My Time with Mr. Pulver.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Pulver passed in January of 1986 while I was still a student at Furman University,\u201d writes Pepper. \u201cHe left me not only with the priceless letters from our time together as student-teacher\/mentor but with great respect for the firm, yet kind, way he approached his then adolescent dreamer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first of a two-part series in Sports Illustrated, two-time major champion Dottie Pepper \u201987 writes about the mentoring that George J. Pulver, a PGA professional, gave her for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":9614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,24,20,21,6],"tags":[890,349],"class_list":["post-9613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-alumni","category-athletics","category-business-and-accounting","category-health-sciences","category-in-the-news","tag-lpga","tag-womens-golf"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9613","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=9613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}