{"id":498,"date":"2010-07-30T14:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=498"},"modified":"2014-03-10T21:50:03","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T21:50:03","slug":"the-golf-lessons-are-going-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/the-golf-lessons-are-going-great\/","title":{"rendered":"The Golf Lessons Are Going Great"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re on the last day of my grandson&#8217;s group lessons. His swing has improved tremendously, and he likes putting! When we were driving over for the first lesson, he commented that he didn&#8217;t like putting, but that was probably because he wasn&#8217;t that good at it. Things like aiming the putter and keeping the putter aligned during the stroke were escaping him.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The pro who is running the session is a good with the kids, and gives them marvelous demonstrations. He used to play on satellite tours. I would watch him demonstrate a particular stroke in an almost off-hand manner and he would hit the ball like I would have to go through a whole bucket to maybe duplicate. He makes it look real easy, which is a good thought to put into a kid&#8217;s head.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I had a lesson yesterday, too, partly because I was already out there, so I might as well use the time wisely, and partly because I had two glaring problems that needed fixing. <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The first problem was that while I have been hitting the ball well, I don&#8217;t know why, and don&#8217;t have confidence standing over the ball that this shot is going to come off. The second problem is that out of nowhere, I can hit the Shot That Cannot Be Named when I&#8217;m pitching. This is a very scary place to be in.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So fortunately, the cure for #2, which we worked on first, led right into the solution to #1. It&#8217;s a good teacher who can solve two problems at once.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It will be off to the range again this afternoon, and both of us will leave happy, and a better golfer.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>If you haven&#8217;t seen my YouTube tips, see them at<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3apDRCNdOWU\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3apDRCNdOWU<\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FfKoARuxtSc\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FfKoARuxtSc<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Also, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therecreationalgolfer.com\/\">www.therecreationalgolfer.com<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re on the last day of my grandson&#8217;s group lessons. His swing has improved tremendously, and he likes putting! When we were driving over for the first lesson, he commented that he didn&#8217;t like putting, but that was probably because he wasn&#8217;t that good at it. Things like aiming the putter and keeping the putter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/the-golf-lessons-are-going-great\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Golf Lessons Are Going Great<\/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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-practice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-82","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","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=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}