{"id":557,"date":"2010-03-09T13:29:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T13:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=557"},"modified":"2019-04-29T10:52:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T17:52:39","slug":"its-time-for-you-to-get-a-golf-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/its-time-for-you-to-get-a-golf-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Time For You to Get a Golf Lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winter is over. Maybe you hit some balls in the last few months, maybe you took a few swings in the house. Unless you kept playing as often as you did last summer, I can pretty much promise that you won\u2019t go right back to that same swing. That your putting will be a little bit off (and all it takes is a little bit for you to miss the ones you used to make). Short game? The part of the game based on feel and finesse? Gone.<\/p>\n<p>So hitting the range is a good idea, and I\u2019m sure you\u2019re doing that. But think hard about having a few lessons to get you on the right track from the start. Why?<\/p>\n<p>Because over a few months of little or no activity you\u2019ve lost what the good swing you had feels like. You might think you\u2019re swinging the same way, but odds are you\u2019re not. You can\u2019t figure out why, but the pro will spot it in a second. <\/p>\n<p>Even if you are hitting the ball well, a lesson will remind of why. It will give you the means of correcting yourself when your swing goes south during the round. <\/p>\n<p>Then there\u2019s the part where you might learn something you didn\u2019t know before, that will help you play better.<\/p>\n<p>Get a lesson. Get several. One for your swing, one for chipping, one for putting. Lessons are the best investment you can make in your golf game.<\/p>\n<p>See more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bettergolfbook.com\/\">www.bettergolfbook.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter is over. Maybe you hit some balls in the last few months, maybe you took a few swings in the house. Unless you kept playing as often as you did last summer, I can pretty much promise that you won\u2019t go right back to that same swing. That your putting will be a little &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/its-time-for-you-to-get-a-golf-lesson\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It\u2019s Time For You to Get a Golf Lesson<\/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":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-golf-lessons"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-8Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557","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=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3769,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions\/3769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}