{"id":548,"date":"2010-04-11T05:16:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T05:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=548"},"modified":"2014-03-10T21:50:05","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T21:50:05","slug":"one-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/one-question\/","title":{"rendered":"One Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wherever you are on the golf course, wherever the ball is, there\u2019s only one question you need to ask yourself. One question that will help you shoot the best possible score. That question is, What\u2019s the best shot I can hit from here?<\/p>\n<p>What is the best shot I can hit from here, given my skills and what I have to do to get the ball in the hole as quickly a possible from here. That\u2019s the long version, but that\u2019s the question.<\/p>\n<p>The question is not, What\u2019s the best shot Arnold Palmer could hit from here? The question is also not, What if I hit my 5-iron like I did two months ago one time? It\u2019s, What\u2019s the best shot I can hit from here, right now?<\/p>\n<p>Brad Faxon once said that you should play conservative shots with a cocky attitude. He meant to play shots you know you can hit, with all the assurance you can muster.<\/p>\n<p>If you have 160 yards from the fairway into a well-defended green, and you know you can get the ball there, then hit the shot. If you have 160 yards into that same green, but from the rough, the best shot you can play from there might be a layup to your favorite chipping distance.<\/p>\n<p>Attack the course with the best shots you have, and you\u2019ll get the most out of your skills and have the most fun.<\/p>\n<p>See more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bettergolfbook.com\/\">www.bettergolfbook.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wherever you are on the golf course, wherever the ball is, there\u2019s only one question you need to ask yourself. One question that will help you shoot the best possible score. That question is, What\u2019s the best shot I can hit from here? What is the best shot I can hit from here, given my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/one-question\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One Question<\/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-548","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-8Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","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=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}