{"id":9293,"date":"2025-01-13T04:13:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T04:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/peter-odemwingie-how-premier-league-star-became-a-pga-golf-pro-after-falling-in-love-with-the-game\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T04:13:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T04:13:33","slug":"peter-odemwingie-how-premier-league-star-became-a-pga-golf-pro-after-falling-in-love-with-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/peter-odemwingie-how-premier-league-star-became-a-pga-golf-pro-after-falling-in-love-with-the-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Odemwingie: How Premier League star became a PGA golf pro after &#8216;falling in love&#8217; with the game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former Premier League and Nigeria striker Peter Odemwingie has qualified as a PGA golf professional, and wants to grow the sport in Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He hopes that by providing more opportunities for young people on the continent its popularity will rise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He dreams of one day coaching a Nigerian golf team at the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Camera and editing: Mark Sedgwick &amp; Dave Wilkins.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Producer: Ian Williams.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Executive producer: Princess Abumere.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/golf\/videos\/c2l01kg58gjo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former Premier League and Nigeria striker Peter Odemwingie has qualified as a PGA golf professional, and wants to grow the sport in Africa. He hopes that by providing more opportunities for young people on the continent its popularity will rise. He dreams of one day coaching a Nigerian golf team at the Olympics. Camera [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-africa","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9295,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9293\/revisions\/9295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}