{"id":59,"date":"2013-09-14T04:20:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-14T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=59"},"modified":"2014-03-10T21:49:30","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T21:49:30","slug":"concentrated-golfing-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/concentrated-golfing-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Concentrated golfing practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s so much to practice in golf, and you need to do all of it at some time or another. But try this concentrated practice routine and see if it doesn&#8217;t pay off real soon in lower scores.<\/p>\n<p>1. Hit range balls only with your driver and sand wedge. Go through your bucket in a six-shot pattern: hit five wedges, then one driver. That will tighten up your short game, and bring a controlled swing to a club that you just have to hit well to have a chance to score.<\/p>\n<p>2. Go to the practice green, with one ball, and chip up to a hole and putt it out. Do this thirty times, hitting to a different setup every time. Maybe you don&#8217;t chip with a sand wedge all the time, but that&#8217;s OK. You&#8217;ll learn to get the ball close enough. You&#8217;ll learn to putt by making real putts: the back end of an up and down, which is golf&#8217;s major scoring skill.<\/p>\n<p>I know there are a lot of shots and clubs this scheme doesn&#8217;t address, but it does address the important ones. The skills you learn here will carry over into the rest of it, believe me.<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therecreationalgolfer.com\/\">www.therecreationalgolfer.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s so much to practice in golf, and you need to do all of it at some time or another. But try this concentrated practice routine and see if it doesn&#8217;t pay off real soon in lower scores. 1. Hit range balls only with your driver and sand wedge. Go through your bucket in a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/concentrated-golfing-practice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Concentrated golfing practice<\/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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-practice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","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=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}