{"id":5602,"date":"2021-04-17T08:53:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T15:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=5602"},"modified":"2022-01-11T06:57:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T14:57:34","slug":"300-yards-i-dont-get-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/300-yards-i-dont-get-it\/","title":{"rendered":"300 Yards? I don&#8217;t get it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was at the range a few days ago. There is a post 300 yards away from the line of tees we hit off of.<\/p>\n<p>300 yards is along way. You don&#8217;t really know how far away that is until you&#8217;re looking at it.<\/p>\n<p>And yet there are guys who hit the ball father than that on the fly.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, they are strong, they are superior athletes, and their technique if flawless. I know all that.<\/p>\n<p>I guess it&#8217;s my imprinting that I can&#8217;t shake. When I started the game, 200 yards off the tee was long for your everyday recreational golfer. 250 yards was a Tour drive and the big hitters averaged 265, maybe 275. <\/p>\n<p>I understand 275 on the fly and roll out to 300.<\/p>\n<p>But 300 and more in the air I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll ever understand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was at the range a few days ago. There is a post 300 yards away from the line of tees we hit off of. 300 yards is along way. You don&#8217;t really know how far away that is until you&#8217;re looking at it. And yet there are guys who hit the ball father than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/300-yards-i-dont-get-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">300 Yards? I don&#8217;t get it<\/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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-1sm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5602","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=5602"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6123,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5602\/revisions\/6123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}