{"id":161,"date":"2013-01-01T17:44:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=161"},"modified":"2022-10-03T08:49:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T15:49:25","slug":"the-perfect-golf-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/the-perfect-golf-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"The Perfect Golf Shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every day I hit plastic balls in my backyard. About once a week I have a flash of insight while I\u2019m doing that. <\/p>\n<p>Every so often, your swing falls into place and you hit an absolutely perfect shot. <\/p>\n<p>This week\u2019s Backyard Epiphany is: Do not start chasing that shot. Enjoy it, then keep hitting with your normal swing. After all, that&#8217;s what you were doing when you hit the perfecto. <\/p>\n<p>The more you try to recreate that perfect shot the harder it is to let yourself do it. Actually you can make your swing worse in the effort.<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t need perfect shots to score well. All you need are playable shots. Hit bunches of those and let the great ones come when they may.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day I hit plastic balls in my backyard. About once a week I have a flash of insight while I\u2019m doing that. Every so often, your swing falls into place and you hit an absolutely perfect shot. This week\u2019s Backyard Epiphany is: Do not start chasing that shot. Enjoy it, then keep hitting with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/the-perfect-golf-shot\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Perfect Golf Shot<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-golf-swing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-2B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","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=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6837,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/6837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}