{"id":568,"date":"2010-02-08T02:54:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T02:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=568"},"modified":"2014-03-10T21:50:05","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T21:50:05","slug":"how-to-master-difficult-golf-holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/how-to-master-difficult-golf-holes\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Master Difficult Golf Holes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you keep a record of your golf scores on the courses you play, you might find there are holes you make a bad score on more often than you should. There is a hole that lures you into trying to hit shots that you really can\u2019t hit that well. Or you\u2019re on the edge of your ability with no room for error.<\/p>\n<p>The way you play the other seventeen holes on the course doesn\u2019t work on this hole. You need a different strategy. That strategy is to figure out the hole in reverse. Architects design holes to look as frightening as possible in the direction they are played. But when you look at the hole in reverse, you can see there is lots of room and several safe places you can hit the ball to. <\/p>\n<p>So from the fairway, find a safe landing area for your tee shot, and hit it there. You\u2019ll have to make note of the line from the tee to that spot, as well as its distance. Look for a safe place near the green. Note how far away it is from the green so if you have to hit to that spot, you\u2019ll know which club to use.<\/p>\n<p>This strategy might mean you\u2019re playing for bogey and you\u2019ll only get a par with a great chip and a great putt. That\u2019s OK. You\u2019ll have taken the big number out of play, and that\u2019s how you shoot a good score.<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therecreationalgolfer.com\/books.html\">www.therecreationalgolfer.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you keep a record of your golf scores on the courses you play, you might find there are holes you make a bad score on more often than you should. There is a hole that lures you into trying to hit shots that you really can\u2019t hit that well. Or you\u2019re on the edge &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/how-to-master-difficult-golf-holes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How To Master Difficult Golf Holes<\/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-568","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-9a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","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=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}