{"id":541,"date":"2010-05-09T02:54:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T02:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=541"},"modified":"2014-03-10T21:50:04","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T21:50:04","slug":"golf-practice-sessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/golf-practice-sessions\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf practice sessions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that the weather in the Pacific NW has finally turned pleasant, I spent the last two mornings at the range. I am in the middle of a major swing change, in which my wrists hinge backward as well as upward. This is how you get the flat left wrist, which I didn’t have, which led to uncontrollable hooking in my case. Nick Faldo’s book, Golf-The Winning Formula<\/span> on pages 82-86. <\/p>\n

At first it felt like my hands were three miles behind me and I would never get them back to the ball, but I’m getting accustomed to the feeling now. Real good results so far. Everything’s going straight, with a few pushes. I’ll figure that one out soon enough.<\/p>\n

I had a good session. With 60 balls, I hit each club three times, then about a dozen pitches to random distances, went over to the practice green to practice chipping and putting (hit a dozen chips to the same hole and putt them all out, repeat with three other holes at different distances), then back to the range to finish the bucket. That’s a good morning’s work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now that the weather in the Pacific NW has finally turned pleasant, I spent the last two mornings at the range. I am in the middle of a major swing change, in which my wrists hinge backward as well as upward. This is how you get the flat left wrist, which I didn’t have, which … Continue reading Golf practice sessions<\/span> →<\/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-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-practice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-8J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","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=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}