{"id":20883,"date":"2022-02-16T14:37:12","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T19:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=20883"},"modified":"2022-02-16T14:37:12","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T19:37:12","slug":"swing-time-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/swing-time-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Swing Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23efefef&amp;d=porltand_monthly_fm22&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=10&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Visiting golf stars add magic to Maine\u2019s fairways.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">By Colin W. Sargent<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The striking advantage of Maine is, we aren\u2019t on the way to somewhere else. That\u2019s why legendary golfers love to play in the state known as \u201cthe Nation\u2019s Air Conditioner.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">We were leafing through a battered Kennebunk Beach photo album when four snapshots jumped off the page. My grandfather, Edward Hall Sargent, documented the July 28, 1935, visit to Webhannet Golf Club by Gene Sarazen (winner of seven majors, including the U.S. Open, Masters, and PGA) and Mildred \u201cBabe\u201d Didrikson, the 1932 Olympic track star who\u2019d win ten major tournaments in the LPGA, becoming No. 1 in the world by the time she died at 45.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-20885\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/golf-1024x536.jpg\" alt=\"golf\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/golf-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/golf-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/golf-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/golf-200x105.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/golf-620x324.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/golf.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visiting golf stars add magic to Maine\u2019s fairways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20884,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1199],"class_list":["post-20883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-febmarch-2022"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20883"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21056,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20883\/revisions\/21056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}