{"id":6252,"date":"2022-02-19T11:14:11","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T19:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=6252"},"modified":"2022-02-19T11:14:11","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T19:14:11","slug":"two-reasons-why-you-hit-bad-shots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/two-reasons-why-you-hit-bad-shots\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Reasons Why You hit Bad Shots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your bad shots are not always caused by a physical error. They can be caused by a mental lapse that leads to a physical error.<\/p>\n<p>The most common mental lapse is to think about hitting the ball a long way. This makes you swing too fast or hit with the trailing hand, neither of which work out very often.<\/p>\n<p>Another common mental lapse is picking a shot you do not have confidence in. Pick a shot you are confident about, then make your stroke with that feeling.<\/p>\n<p>These ideas might make you take two shots when you wanted to take only one, but they prevent you from taking three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your bad shots are not always caused by a physical error. They can be caused by a mental lapse that leads to a physical error. The most common mental lapse is to think about hitting the ball a long way. This makes you swing too fast or hit with the trailing hand, neither of which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/two-reasons-why-you-hit-bad-shots\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two Reasons Why You hit Bad Shots<\/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":[9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mental-game","category-playing-the-game"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-1CQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252","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=6252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6254,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252\/revisions\/6254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}