{"id":5734,"date":"2021-06-06T19:37:39","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T02:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=5734"},"modified":"2021-06-06T19:41:52","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T02:41:52","slug":"golf-practice-needs-to-be-specific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/golf-practice-needs-to-be-specific\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf Practice Needs to Be Specific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I practice, I practice the things that make the shot work. Just a few. <\/p>\n<p>Right now, my swing things are to have a wider stance at address (it was too narrow), swing the club away with my forearms (not my hands), start down at the same speed I came up (a constant struggle), turn fully (I get too arm-oriented and forget to do this), and keep my tempo under control (everybody&#8217;s weak spot).<\/p>\n<p>Those are the things that if I don&#8217;t do them seem to be what fouls up the shot, so I&#8217;m working on them a lot until they become my habits. <\/p>\n<p>I practice them, one at a time, adding the next one on until I am satisfied with the way that they are all functioning correctly and then I hit a ball.<\/p>\n<p>Repeat 29 times.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe a year from now there will be something else that is causing me problems so I will work on that.<\/p>\n<p>Find yours. Work on them. Don&#8217;t just go the range to hit balls. Work on something specific.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I practice, I practice the things that make the shot work. Just a few. Right now, my swing things are to have a wider stance at address (it was too narrow), swing the club away with my forearms (not my hands), start down at the same speed I came up (a constant struggle), turn &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/golf-practice-needs-to-be-specific\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Golf Practice Needs to Be Specific<\/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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-practice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-1uu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5734","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=5734"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5738,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5734\/revisions\/5738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}