{"id":1080,"date":"2006-05-25T10:22:05","date_gmt":"2006-05-25T18:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/05\/the_only_thing_weirder_than_a_golf_course_on_governors_island_is_that_dennis_quaid_is_hollywoods_best_golfer.html"},"modified":"2008-01-25T11:20:52","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T16:20:52","slug":"the_only_thing_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/05\/the_only_thing_1.html","title":{"rendered":"The Only Thing Weirder Than A Golf Course On Governors Island Is That Dennis Quaid Is Hollywood’s Best Golfer"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t know how you forget about an entire golf course, but whatever<\/a>:<\/p>\n

It’s tee time on Governors Island, where a long-forgotten golf course will be revived for a celebrity competition this fall.<\/p>\n

The Manhattan Golf Classic on Governors Island, announced yesterday for Oct. 22, will pit female champs Annika Sorenstam and Natalie Gulbis in an 18-hole battle of the sexes against actor Dennis Quaid, rated Hollywood’s best player by Golf Digest, and another star yet to be named.<\/p>\n

Actors Craig T. Nelson and Bruce McGill, who was the rowdy D-Day in “Animal House,” will be among those squaring off in a four-man celebrity contest also being planned.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

ArenaCorp Holdings, which is paying $75,000 plus expenses for use of the island, will restore the nine-hole course last used by Coast Guard officers before the service left in 1996.<\/p>\n

The nine holes, spanning a relatively compact 10 acres or so, will do double duty by rearranging the tee approaches and placement of the pins.<\/p>\n

“We’ve been able to embrace the historic character of the property . . . with meandering holes around Fort Jay, the skyline and the Statue of Liberty,” said Robert McNeil, president of The Northeast Golf Co., which is helping to restore the course.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t know how you forget about an entire golf course, but whatever: It’s tee time on Governors Island, where a long-forgotten golf course will be revived for a celebrity competition this fall. The Manhattan Golf Classic on Governors Island, announced yesterday for Oct. 22, will pit female champs Annika Sorenstam and Natalie Gulbis in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dude_thats_so_weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}