{"id":404,"date":"2011-06-03T14:14:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T14:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=404"},"modified":"2014-07-12T13:14:17","modified_gmt":"2014-07-12T20:14:17","slug":"knit-your-way-to-better-putting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/knit-your-way-to-better-putting\/","title":{"rendered":"Knit Your Way To Better Putting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the ball to go in the hole, you have to read the green to find the right line. Then you need a stroke that sends the ball off on the line you selected. Here&#8217;s an easy way to take care of number 2.<\/p>\n<p>It involves knitting. The needles, not the yarn. The knitting needles that your wife or SigOth uses to make you sweaters are just the thing for building a secure stroke. A pair of number 6s will be just right.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xh8W92jvziA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can do this at home, too. I tie one end of the string to the handle on the lowest drawer of my dresser, and the other end to the pole of a floor lamp.&nbsp;A tin can lid serves for a hole. Set up the same way, and play on.<\/p>\n<p>Straight back, straight through. Very machine-like, very accurate. Spend a few minutes every week with your knitting needles. It will pay off. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the ball to go in the hole, you have to read the green to find the right line. Then you need a stroke that sends the ball off on the line you selected. Here&#8217;s an easy way to take care of number 2. It involves knitting. The needles, not the yarn. The knitting needles &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/knit-your-way-to-better-putting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Knit Your Way To Better Putting<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":683,"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-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-putting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSCN0785web.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-6w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","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=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":889,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions\/889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}