{"id":474,"date":"2010-10-01T22:41:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T22:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=474"},"modified":"2014-03-10T21:50:03","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T21:50:03","slug":"todays-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/todays-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They say you don&#8217;t learn anything when you play well, only when you play poorly. I say, Nonsense. When I play well, I learn how to play well. When else do you learn that? <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I shot a 75 today. This is what I learned.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>1. Don&#8217;t hit a shot until you&#8217;re ready. That means you are at ease with what you are about to do. If you have any misgivings, or doubt, or something just doesn&#8217;t feel right, step away. Clear your head, and step up to the ball again.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>2. Play within yourself, especially off the tee. Play easy and believe in what you&#8217;re about to do.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>3. Read putts by looking uphill. If you&#8217;re putting uphill, read the green from behind the ball. If you&#8217;re putting downhill, read from behind the hole. The slope of the hill and the break are always seen more clearly when you look uphill.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>4. Find the shots that are working and use them to death. Let the shots that aren&#8217;t working take the day off.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>5. When in doubt about which iron to choose, take the longer one, grip down a half inch, and fire away. <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therecreationalgolfer.com\/\">www.therecreationalgolfer.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They say you don&#8217;t learn anything when you play well, only when you play poorly. I say, Nonsense. When I play well, I learn how to play well. When else do you learn that? I shot a 75 today. This is what I learned. 1. Don&#8217;t hit a shot until you&#8217;re ready. That means you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/todays-lessons\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Today&#8217;s lessons<\/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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-playing-the-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\/474","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=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}