{"id":5385,"date":"2020-12-22T08:27:04","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T16:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=5385"},"modified":"2020-12-21T17:50:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T01:50:54","slug":"the-meaning-of-external-focus-in-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/the-meaning-of-external-focus-in-golf\/","title":{"rendered":"The Meaning of External Focus in Golf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The concept of external focus, that is, putting your mind on what the club is doing rather than what you are doing, pays off brilliantly when applied to golf.<\/p>\n<p>I have worked with it for several years and finally spent last summer hitting balls two and three times a day to work it into my golf swing for good.<\/p>\n<p>It makes things so much easier, and so much better.<\/p>\n<p>But it is important that you understand what the concept really means. This video, featuring Vivien Saunders, a champion golfer and legendary teacher from England, explains it.<\/p>\n<p>Watch it several times. She makes key points, but says them only once. The more times you watch it, the more you will understand what she is really telling us.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ETnwQ36q3mw\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The concept of external focus, that is, putting your mind on what the club is doing rather than what you are doing, pays off brilliantly when applied to golf. I have worked with it for several years and finally spent last summer hitting balls two and three times a day to work it into my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/the-meaning-of-external-focus-in-golf\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Meaning of External Focus in Golf<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-golf-swing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-1oR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5385","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=5385"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5395,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5385\/revisions\/5395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}