{"id":345,"date":"2011-10-13T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=345"},"modified":"2014-03-10T21:49:57","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T21:49:57","slug":"a-simple-putting-tip-or-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/a-simple-putting-tip-or-three\/","title":{"rendered":"A Simple Putting Tip or Three"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About five years ago, I had a streak of 48 consecutive holes without a three-putt green. Now unfortunately, I like to play around with golf and go astray from what works. That&#8217;s why I write down what I&#8217;m doing when things go well so I can always go back to it.<\/p>\n<p>What I was doing then, and I can&#8217;t for the life of me figure out why I ever stop doing it, it this:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\">My upper arms rest firmly, but not tightly, against my torso.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This does several good things:<br \/>&#8211; my hands get taken out of the stroke<br \/>&#8211; my arms don&#8217;t wander<br \/>&#8211; I stay relaxed, since it&#8217;s the big muscles that are moving the putter.<\/p>\n<p>Two other fine points that seem to make a big difference are:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\">I keep the putter low to the ground on the follow-through.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\">I don&#8217;t look up&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">with my head or my eyes<\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">to follow the ball for about two seconds after the ball has been struck.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I believe that if you try these three things, which can be installed in your putting game in a few minutes at most, you will putt better.<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therecreationalgolfer.com\/\">www.therecreationalgolfer.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About five years ago, I had a streak of 48 consecutive holes without a three-putt green. Now unfortunately, I like to play around with golf and go astray from what works. That&#8217;s why I write down what I&#8217;m doing when things go well so I can always go back to it. What I was doing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/a-simple-putting-tip-or-three\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Simple Putting Tip or Three<\/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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-putting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-5z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","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=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}