{"id":3042,"date":"2018-09-09T21:32:02","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T01:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=3042"},"modified":"2018-09-03T21:42:42","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T01:42:42","slug":"consistent-putt-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/consistent-putt-speed\/","title":{"rendered":"Consistent Putt Speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all know how critical the right speed is in reading a putt we think we can sink.&nbsp;&nbsp;The speed of the putt refers not to how hard you hit the ball, but how fast it is rolling when it gets to the hole.&nbsp;&nbsp;To be a consistent green reader, you have to be able to make that speed be the same regardless of how long the putt is.<\/p>\n<p>Once you have picked out your favored speed, generally fast enough to let a missed putt roll from 12-18&#8243; past the hole (but pick <em>one<\/em> distance, say 15&#8243;), and practice how to to make the ball approach the hole at that speed consistently.<\/p>\n<p>The drill below shows you how to do that.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bx2-gl4GeWY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know how critical the right speed is in reading a putt we think we can sink.&nbsp;&nbsp;The speed of the putt refers not to how hard you hit the ball, but how fast it is rolling when it gets to the hole.&nbsp;&nbsp;To be a consistent green reader, you have to be able to make &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/consistent-putt-speed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Consistent Putt Speed<\/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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-putting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-N4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042","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=3042"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3045,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042\/revisions\/3045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}