{"id":233,"date":"2002-08-08T18:24:00","date_gmt":"2002-08-08T23:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/uncategorised\/golfing_ceos.html"},"modified":"2006-10-15T19:46:08","modified_gmt":"2006-10-16T00:46:08","slug":"golfing_ceos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/finance\/golfing_ceos.html","title":{"rendered":"Companies with top golfing CEOs: good buy or bad buy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.golfdigest.com\/\" title=\"Golf Digest website\">Golf Digest<\/a> posted its ranking of <a href=\"http:\/\/golfdigest.com\/features\/index.ssf?\/features\/gd200209handicap.html\" title=\"America's Golfing CEOs\">America&#8217;s golfing CEOs<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun.com\" title=\"Sun Microsystems website\">Sun Microsystems<\/a>&#8216; CEO Scott McNealy topped the list with a 0.3 handicap.<\/p>\n<p>The question is, are companies whose CEOs appear prominently in the list <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fool.com\/news\/take\/2002\/take020808.htm#subpar\">a good buy or a bad buy<\/a>? On the one hand, maybe they golf a lot with other CEOs, cementing deals and turning on the schmooze, or perhaps relaxing after a busy day at the office. On the other hand, these CEOs can&#8217;t be doing that much work while they&#8217;re golfing. Is there a correlation between CEOs who are good golfers and their companies&#8217; performance? Golf Digest&#8217;s annual ranking could very well be every bit as important an investing tool as the annual report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.golfdigest.com\/\" title=\"Golf Digest website\">Golf Digest<\/a> posted its ranking of <a href=\"http:\/\/golfdigest.com\/features\/index.ssf?\/features\/gd200209handicap.html\" title=\"America's Golfing CEOs\">America&#8217;s golfing CEOs<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun.com\" title=\"Sun Microsystems website\">Sun Microsystems<\/a>&#8216; CEO Scott McNealy topped the list with a 0.3 handicap.<\/p>\n<p>The question is, are companies whose CEOs appear prominently in the list <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fool.com\/news\/take\/2002\/take020808.htm#subpar\">a good buy or a bad buy<\/a>? On the&nbsp;&hellip;&nbsp;<a class=\"read_more\" href=\"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/finance\/golfing_ceos.html\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Continue reading &ldquo;Companies with top golfing CEOs: good buy or bad buy?&rdquo;\"><span>Read more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}