{"id":182,"date":"2012-11-19T08:01:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T08:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=182"},"modified":"2014-03-10T21:49:40","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T21:49:40","slug":"practicing-golf-indoors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/practicing-golf-indoors\/","title":{"rendered":"Practicing Golf Indoors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you&#8217;re learning a foreign language, they&#8217;ll tell you that fifteen minutes every day is better that two hours on Sunday. It&#8217;s that periodic repetition that keeps the ball in the air which does the trick. <\/p>\n<p>Golf is the same way. If you can practice fifteen minutes a day, you can keep your game in tune even if you can&#8217;t play. <\/p>\n<p>Putt across the carpet. Step up to each stroke like it&#8217;s a putt on the green&#8211;go through your whole routine. Practice three- and four-footers by rolling the ball over a tin can lid. Practice 30-footers in the same way, using a pillow for a backstop. The important thing here is that in making your 30-foot stroke, you hit the ball on the sweet spot and still roll the ball over the lid. <\/p>\n<p>Get a carpet remnant and chip off that with plastic balls into the pillow you used for approach putts. Ball first, ground second. Rotate through all your chipping clubs over a period of days.<\/p>\n<p>Hang a mattress pad or a blanket over a curtain rod in front of one of your windows and hit pitches into it (use plastic balls, please, and hit off a carpet remnant to save wear and tear on your flooring.)<\/p>\n<p>Full swing? You can swing under an 8-foot ceiling with a 7-iron or less, but for a longer, club, step outside. If you have a back yard, you can hit plastic balls into a net or against that mattress pad. If you&#8217;re an apartment dweller, well, just swing. Before very swing, go through your entire pre-swing routine.<\/p>\n<p>Just do <i>something<\/i>, every day. <\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therecreationalgolfer.com\/\">www.therecreationalgolfer.com<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you&#8217;re learning a foreign language, they&#8217;ll tell you that fifteen minutes every day is better that two hours on Sunday. It&#8217;s that periodic repetition that keeps the ball in the air which does the trick. Golf is the same way. If you can practice fifteen minutes a day, you can keep your game in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/practicing-golf-indoors\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Practicing Golf Indoors<\/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-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-practice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-2W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","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=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}