{"id":2111,"date":"2016-12-11T21:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T05:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=2111"},"modified":"2016-12-11T15:51:07","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T23:51:07","slug":"going-from-the-range-to-the-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/going-from-the-range-to-the-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Going From the Range to the Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The driving range is about hitting shots. The golf course is about scoring. Here\u2019s how to make the first one easier to bring to the second one.<\/p>\n<p>1. Pick a target for every shot. Not a direction, but a spot on the ground where you want the ball to land. <\/p>\n<p>2. Go through your entire pre-shot routine before you hit the ball. Don\u2019t swing at the ball until you have the feeling that this will be a very good shot.<\/p>\n<p>3. For the next shot, pick a different target. <\/p>\n<p>4. Change clubs after every three shots. <\/p>\n<p>5. Take a break every now and then. Get out of your groove before you resume.<\/p>\n<p>6. Hit some fades and draws. Hit some high shots, some low shots.<\/p>\n<p>7. Develop a shot for when you just can\u2019t go right. Same for when you can\u2019t go left. Same for This one has to go straight, distance be hanged.<\/p>\n<p>8. Make it fun. Make hitting golf balls something you enjoy, not something you work at.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The driving range is about hitting shots. The golf course is about scoring. Here\u2019s how to make the first one easier to bring to the second one. 1. Pick a target for every shot. Not a direction, but a spot on the ground where you want the ball to land. 2. Go through your entire &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/going-from-the-range-to-the-course\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Going From the Range to the Course<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-practice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-y3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111","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=2111"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2113,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111\/revisions\/2113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}