{"id":555,"date":"2010-03-15T15:55:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T15:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=555"},"modified":"2014-03-10T21:50:05","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T21:50:05","slug":"spring-tune-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/spring-tune-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Tune-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that you\u2019ve played a few rounds to scratch your golfing itch, take a break and get yourself and your equipment ready for the season.<\/p>\n<p>Replace your spikes. The ones on your shoes now are worn down to nubs. Better yet, maybe you need a new pair of golf shoes. Are the the ones you have now really that comfortable anymore?<\/p>\n<p>Get new grips on your clubs. When the grips get smooth, you start holding on tighter, introducing tension and causing all sorts of swing problems.<\/p>\n<p>Get some lessons. That swing that worked so great last fall is a little rusty. Get a putting and chipping lesson, too. You\u2019ll get a few adjustments that will make a world of difference.<\/p>\n<p>Buy a wide-brimmed hat that actually does, instead of pretending to, keep the sun off your face and neck.<\/p>\n<p>Get that new driver. Just kidding. Learn to get the driver you have in the fairway and use the $399 to pay for golf lessons.<\/p>\n<p>Purchase and read <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Better Recreational Golf<\/span>, (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bettergolfbook.com\/\">www.bettergolfbook.com<\/a>) by yours truly. Applying the information in this book <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">will<\/span> help you shoot lower scores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that you\u2019ve played a few rounds to scratch your golfing itch, take a break and get yourself and your equipment ready for the season. Replace your spikes. The ones on your shoes now are worn down to nubs. Better yet, maybe you need a new pair of golf shoes. Are the the ones you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/spring-tune-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spring Tune-up<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supporting-your-golf"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-8X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","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=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}