{"id":125,"date":"2013-03-30T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-30T07:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=125"},"modified":"2014-03-10T21:50:10","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T21:50:10","slug":"what-i-learned-at-the-range-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/what-i-learned-at-the-range-3\/","title":{"rendered":"What I learned at the range &#8211; 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the range last Tuesday and was having a problem with all my clubs. I got reasonably good ball flight, but the shots went all over the place. <\/p>\n<p>I had a bucket of 30 balls, and hit only about four or five each with my driver, 24-degree hybrid, and my 7-iron. I got a lot of missed fairways and missed greens.<\/p>\n<p>So I put down those clubs and hit the rest of the balls with my wedges, to work on those important shots. All went well.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, I stopped hitting wedges when there were three balls left, I took out the long clubs again for one swing each. One drive, a draw to the left side. Hybrid, center of the green. 7-iron? As Gary Player says, I hit it so straight you had to lean to the side to see the pin.<\/p>\n<p>Now you could say that I hit those last three so well because I was finally warmed up. I think it&#8217;s because of <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=132\">all those wedges<\/a> I hit.<\/p>\n<p>Try it yourself and see.<\/p>\n<p>My new book, <b><i>The Golfing Self<\/i><\/b>, is now available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therecreationalgolfer.com\/indexS13.html\">www.therecreationalgolfer.com<\/a>. It will change everything about the way you play.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the range last Tuesday and was having a problem with all my clubs. I got reasonably good ball flight, but the shots went all over the place. I had a bucket of 30 balls, and hit only about four or five each with my driver, 24-degree hybrid, and my 7-iron. I got &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/what-i-learned-at-the-range-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What I learned at the range &#8211; 3<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-practice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-21","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}