{"id":448,"date":"2011-02-10T23:19:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T23:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=448"},"modified":"2014-03-10T21:50:02","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T21:50:02","slug":"play-golf-under-a-watchful-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/play-golf-under-a-watchful-eye\/","title":{"rendered":"Play Golf Under a Watchful Eye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quick tip.<\/p>\n<p>When I take a golf lesson, I always hit the ball well. That&#8217;s because I don&#8217;t want to waste the time I have (and am paying for) with the pro, so I make sure my best swing comes out &#8211; at least as often as possible.<\/p>\n<p>I figured, why not do this when I play, as well? I imagine him standing about five or six feet away from me, where he normally stands, watching. Now I don&#8217;t want to waste a shot and make no progress, so I get into my best swing mode.<\/p>\n<p><i>Et voila!<\/i> One good shot after another. Not one great shot after another, but every one is playable and there are no clinkers.<\/p>\n<p>The reason I think this works is that it takes my mind off all the details and onto the one thing that needs to be done &#8211; hit the ball cleanly. And that&#8217;s what happens.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine someone is watching with a critical eye. Works for me.<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therecreationalgolfer.com\/\">www.therecreationalgolfer.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick tip. When I take a golf lesson, I always hit the ball well. That&#8217;s because I don&#8217;t want to waste the time I have (and am paying for) with the pro, so I make sure my best swing comes out &#8211; at least as often as possible. I figured, why not do this when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/play-golf-under-a-watchful-eye\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Play Golf Under a Watchful Eye<\/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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mental-game"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-7e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","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=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}