{"id":36640,"date":"2024-06-28T08:52:52","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T08:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=36640"},"modified":"2024-06-28T08:52:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T08:52:59","slug":"my-transition-into-golf-was-tough-osaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/06\/28\/my-transition-into-golf-was-tough-osaze\/","title":{"rendered":"My Transition Into Golf Was Tough  \u2013 Osaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Super Eagles forward, Osaze Odemwingie has revealed that it was not an easy task for him to transition into golf.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that Osaze is now a professional golfer following his graduation from the Professional Golfers Association school on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>However, the former West Brom star stated that golf gives him time to be with his family since his children are still young.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am someone who has a goal. I gave it a good shot. It was hard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople quit this degree in year two; many boys can\u2019t cope with the volume [of study].\u201d It was hard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut my Nigerian spirit helped me persevere through the year two when there was a lot to do study-wise,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Odemwingie announced his retirement from football at the age of 37.<\/p>\n<p>The former West Bromwich striker, who made his Super Eagles debut in 2002, scored 11 international goals in 65 matches for his national team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Super Eagles forward, Osaze Odemwingie has revealed that it was not an easy task for him to transition into golf. Recall that Osaze is now a professional golfer following his graduation from the Professional Golfers Association school on Tuesday. However, the former West Brom star stated that golf gives him time to be with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":36642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[1100],"class_list":["post-36640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-osaze"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36640"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36654,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36640\/revisions\/36654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}