{"id":6270,"date":"2022-02-28T08:13:40","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T16:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=6270"},"modified":"2022-02-25T08:15:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T16:15:03","slug":"how-i-practice-putting-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/how-i-practice-putting-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Practice Putting At Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I practice putting at home, I usually practice just my stroke. I don&#8217;t try to hit the ball at a target. I save that for the practice green at the range.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll putt to a backstop about six feet away, trying to emulate this stroke, because there is so much that is good about it. See it at 0:30.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n5Gr6Bn7na8\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I concentrate on two things:<\/p>\n<p>1. A gentle swing of the club back and through, keeping the clubhead low going back and going through, swinging the entire club, not just the clubhead. A putt, too, is a swing, not a hit.<\/p>\n<p>2. Contacting the ball on the sweet spot, which I tell by sound. I want to make the right sound every time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I practice putting at home, I usually practice just my stroke. I don&#8217;t try to hit the ball at a target. I save that for the practice green at the range. I&#8217;ll putt to a backstop about six feet away, trying to emulate this stroke, because there is so much that is good about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/how-i-practice-putting-at-home\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How I Practice Putting At Home<\/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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-putting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-1D8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6270","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=6270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6271,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6270\/revisions\/6271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}