{"id":7217,"date":"2013-11-07T00:01:31","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T00:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=7217"},"modified":"2013-11-06T17:58:46","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T17:58:46","slug":"golf-hazard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2013\/11\/07\/golf-hazard\/","title":{"rendered":"Now that is what I call a divot! An unusual hazard on a golf course in Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I missed this story at the time, but it is worth highlighting here.\u00a0 Back in early August, golfers at the Matterhorn Golf Club in Taesch, Switzerland faced a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portugalgolftour.com\/gigantic-rocks-fall-onto-swiss-golf-course\/\">slightly unusual hazard<\/a> when a boulder fell from an adjacent mountain to land on one of the greens.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oobgolf.com\/content\/fore+play\/1-7099-TwoMeterTall_Rock_Falls_Creates_New_Bunker_on_Swiss_Golf_Course.html\">oobgolf.com website<\/a> has the best set of images, from which these are taken:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7218\" style=\"width: 644px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2013\/11\/13_11-golf-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7218\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7218\" alt=\"Golf\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2013\/11\/13_11-golf-1.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2013\/11\/13_11-golf-1.jpg 634w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2013\/11\/13_11-golf-1-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7218\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">http:\/\/www.oobgolf.com\/content\/fore+play\/1-7099-TwoMeterTall_Rock_Falls_Creates_New_Bunker_on_Swiss_Golf_Course.html<\/p><\/div>\n<p>..<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7219\" style=\"width: 644px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2013\/11\/13_11-golf-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7219\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7219\" alt=\"Golf\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2013\/11\/13_11-golf-2.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2013\/11\/13_11-golf-2.jpg 634w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2013\/11\/13_11-golf-2-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7219\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">http:\/\/www.oobgolf.com\/content\/fore+play\/1-7099-TwoMeterTall_Rock_Falls_Creates_New_Bunker_on_Swiss_Golf_Course.html<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In the comments below the article, several people are confused about how it ended up in the middle of the green.\u00a0 I would suspect that the boulder was both bouncing and rotating &#8211; in this case the tabular shape of the rock would create a very stable motion (a bit like a wheel bouncing down a slope).\u00a0 This would also be why the crater has that elongated shape, and why the boulder has bounced out of it.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in August, a boulder fell about 300 m onto a golf course in Taesch, Switzerland, leaving a spectacular hazard for the players<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landslide-images"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}