{"id":5032,"date":"2018-06-11T10:00:48","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T10:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/?p=5032"},"modified":"2018-06-11T10:00:48","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T10:00:48","slug":"fred-astaire-golfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/blog\/lifestyle-self-improvement\/fred-astaire-golfer\/","title":{"rendered":"Fred Astaire was a Golfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>One of the best things about being an entrepreneur or small business owner is that, ideally, you can make time to do the things that make you feel good.\u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>One of my long-term hobbies besides dancing has always been golf.\u00a0<\/span><span>It\u2019s a g<\/span><span>reat opp<\/span><span>ortunity\u00a0<\/span><span>to use my competitive athletic skills and also bond w<\/span><span>ith other guys when we\u2019re out on the course, talking business and having a good time outside.\u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Recently, I was Up North enjoying a northern Michigan spring day, under blue skies and clear sunlight, freshly thawed air, surrounded by friends on the incredibly green course. As a business owner, I could take time to retreat to the country to enjoy life \u2013 deep breaths, a bit of personal challenge and chummy conversation.<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Did you know<\/span><span>,<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>Fred Astaire was a golfer<\/span><span>?<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Yep, in fact, check him out in\u00a0<\/span><span>this<\/span><span>\u00a0video:<\/span><br \/>\n<iframe title=\"Fred Astaire Golfing and Dancing... AMAZING!\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YLD70YrjZD4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span>In 2016, a\u00a0<\/span><i><span>Golf Digest\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfdigest.com\/story\/fred-astaire-trick-shot-artist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>article<\/span><\/a><span>\u00a0quoted Fred Astaire as claiming that his proudest achievement was \u201ca 4-wood I hit on the 13<\/span><span>th<\/span><span>\u00a0hole at\u00a0<\/span><span>Bel<\/span><span>-Air Country Club in 1945.\u201d<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The article said his handicap was 10. Apparently, he wanted to incorporate golf into a dance routine and ended up doing so in\u00a0<\/span><i><span>Carefree<\/span><\/i><span>, a 1938 release where he co-starred with Ginger Rogers.<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Dance is one of those\u00a0<\/span><span>activities<\/span><span>\u00a0that can make you feel great. Golf, too.\u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Do you know what makes you happy?\u00a0<\/span><span>Do you make time to do those things? If not, what\u2019s holding you\u00a0<\/span><span>bck<\/span><span>?<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>If you\u2019<\/span><span>re a good golfer, you can abso<\/span><span>lutely da<\/span><span>nce. L<\/span><span>ike any skill, if you learn the fundamentals, you can do\u00a0<\/span><span>it in time<\/span><span>.\u00a0<\/span><span>Ballroom dancing is simply\u00a0<\/span><span>learning the fundamentals,\u00a0<\/span><span>building the\u00a0<\/span><span>basics<\/span><span>\u00a0into a routine, and practicing as much as you can. In time, it\u2019s like a second home.<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best things about being an entrepreneur or small business owner is that, ideally, you can make time to do the things that make you feel good.\u00a0\u00a0 One of my long-term hobbies besides dancing has always been golf.\u00a0It\u2019s a great opportunity\u00a0to use my competitive athletic skills and also bond with other guys when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,23],"tags":[43,109,95,38],"class_list":["post-5032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fred-astaire-fads-history","category-lifestyle-self-improvement","tag-ballroom-dance","tag-dancers","tag-fred-astaire","tag-fred-astaire-dance-studio"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}