{"id":1993,"date":"2016-07-31T21:00:41","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T04:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=1993"},"modified":"2016-07-18T07:32:11","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T14:32:11","slug":"a-putting-drill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/a-putting-drill\/","title":{"rendered":"A Putting Drill"},"content":{"rendered":"

Go to Home Depot or Lowe\u2019s and buy a 4-foot metal ruler. It\u2019s just a couple bucks.<\/p>\n

Lay the ruler down on the floor and put a golf ball in the center of the ruler at about the 40-inch mark or so.<\/p>\n

\"Putting<\/a><\/p>\n

Now putt the ball down the length of the ruler so it stays between the numbers on each side.<\/p>\n

Try not to manipulate the ball down the ruler. The ball staying between the numbers is an indicator, not the goal. <\/p>\n

Just staying on the ruler doesn’t count. The ball has to run the length of the ruler in the center.<\/p>\n

If you need to make a correction, do, but when you hit the ball, trust your stoke and see what happens.<\/p>\n

The practice green, is for learning pace and green-reading. Develop your stroke at home. This is a good way to do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Go to Home Depot or Lowe\u2019s and buy a 4-foot metal ruler. It\u2019s just a couple bucks. Lay the ruler down on the floor and put a golf ball in the center of the ruler at about the 40-inch mark or so. Now putt the ball down the length of the ruler so it stays … Continue reading A Putting Drill<\/span> →<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-putting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-w9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993","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=1993"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2002,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions\/2002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}