{"id":2304,"date":"2017-08-27T21:00:49","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T04:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=2304"},"modified":"2017-08-28T15:02:25","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T22:02:25","slug":"how-not-to-drive-yourself-nuts-on-the-golf-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/how-not-to-drive-yourself-nuts-on-the-golf-course\/","title":{"rendered":"How Not to Drive Yourself Nuts on the Golf Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From my forthcoming book, <em>Bob&#8217;s Living Golf Book<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>1. Hit an easy shot with a simple outcome. Don\u2019t make any shot a big deal. Just get an idea, and hit the ball with no worries.<\/p>\n<p>Then,<br \/>\n2. After you hit this one, don\u2019t think about it, good or bad, and don\u2019t think about the next one until you\u2019ve arrived at the ball. Spend the meantime schmoozing with your buddies.<\/p>\n<p>When you get to your ball,<br \/>\nGo to step 1. <\/p>\n<p>3. Add up your score when the round is over. While you\u2019re playing, it\u2019s not important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From my forthcoming book, Bob&#8217;s Living Golf Book: 1. Hit an easy shot with a simple outcome. Don\u2019t make any shot a big deal. Just get an idea, and hit the ball with no worries. Then, 2. After you hit this one, don\u2019t think about it, good or bad, and don\u2019t think about the next &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/how-not-to-drive-yourself-nuts-on-the-golf-course\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Not to Drive Yourself Nuts on the Golf 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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-Ba","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304","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=2304"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2308,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304\/revisions\/2308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}