{"id":297,"date":"2012-02-07T23:42:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T23:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=297"},"modified":"2014-03-10T21:49:52","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T21:49:52","slug":"my-two-golf-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/my-two-golf-bags\/","title":{"rendered":"My Two Golf Bags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like to have fun with the clubs I choose for my bag. A particular makeup means that you have to play the game in a patricular way. There&#8217;s no harm in that, and it makes it more fun to mix things up every so often. It makes you create, and the rewards of doing that successfully are great.<\/p>\n<p>This is my <b>short bag<\/b>: driver, 2H, 4H, 7i, PW, SW, putter. I play pretty well with just these seven clubs. If you only think before you hit, there really isn&#8217;t any shot that you can&#8217;t pull off. It&#8217;s just not automatic. Seven clubs make the bag a lot lighter to carry, too.<\/p>\n<p>This is my <b>long bag<\/b>: driver, 2H, 3H, 4H, 5H, 6-9i, PW, GW, SW, LW, putter. I look at the length of the longest par 3 I will be playing today and take the 2H or 3H as appropriate, leaving the other at home. Four wedges give me lots of pitching flexibility, and make chipping formulaic.<\/p>\n<p>I have felt for many years that I won&#8217;t put clubs in my bag because a manufacturer wants me to. They go in because there is a reason.<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therecreationalgolfer.com\/books.html\">www.therecreationalgolfer.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like to have fun with the clubs I choose for my bag. A particular makeup means that you have to play the game in a patricular way. There&#8217;s no harm in that, and it makes it more fun to mix things up every so often. It makes you create, and the rewards of doing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/my-two-golf-bags\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Two Golf Bags<\/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":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equipment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-4N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","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=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}