{"id":310,"date":"2008-04-19T18:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-19T18:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/2008\/04\/no-payne-no-gain--pinehurst-no-2.html"},"modified":"2008-04-19T18:20:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-19T18:20:00","slug":"no-payne-no-gain-pinehurst-no-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/bibleandculture\/2008\/04\/no-payne-no-gain-pinehurst-no-2.html","title":{"rendered":"No Payne, No Gain– Pinehurst No. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>Pinehurst No. 2, one of the greatest of all golf courses in the world, is also clearly, at least in terms of its greens, one of the most difficult courses in the world, and it sure humbled me on April 29th. It was a cold and windy Saturday, and it was hard to even feel my hands. The course was beautiful, but you can see the leaden skies. Honestly, I was just feeling blessed to get to play the course where two of my favorite golfers, Payne Stewart, and Davis Love, won major championships. You will find below a picture of me with the statue of Payne, who gave his life to Christ not long before he was tragically killed in a plane crash. The statue recreates the moment he sank the winning putt here on this course, and shows his instinctive reaction to doing so.
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\"\"<\/a>Robert Trent Jones sure knew how to create devilish greens. These are mostly crowned greens so the ball rolls off in all directions, and they require pin point accuracy in putting. Both Carnoustie and the Old course at St. Andrews have much easier greens than these!
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