{"id":6540,"date":"2022-06-01T16:25:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T23:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=6540"},"modified":"2022-06-01T16:25:22","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T23:25:22","slug":"take-the-hit-out-of-your-swing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/take-the-hit-out-of-your-swing\/","title":{"rendered":"Take the Hit Out of Your Swing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have to remind myself of something constantly. And it&#8217;s not to keep the lid to the toilet down. I have that one figured out.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s rather to stop trying to hit the ball a long way by hitting it hard. <\/p>\n<p>I have <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/the-slow-golf-swing\/\">written about this before<\/a>. But as I said then, this advice is difficult to remember. <\/p>\n<p>Today in my backyard driving range, after hitting about ten plastic balls not really that well, I decided to just make my swing feel like a walk in the park. <\/p>\n<p>I hope that means something to you, because it did to me. It didn&#8217;t result in slowing down my swing that much, if at all, but it made my swing <em>flow<\/em> better. That&#8217;s the best way I can describe it.<\/p>\n<p>The result, of course, was a dead center hit that made a loud crack against the clubface instead of a muffled whatever. Ball flight? I&#8217;ll take it any day.<\/p>\n<p>Just too make sure that wasn&#8217;t pure luck, I did the same thing again and got the same result.<\/p>\n<p>Find a way to build this idea into your game in a way that means something to you.<\/p>\n<p>And then do a better job of remembering it than I do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to remind myself of something constantly. And it&#8217;s not to keep the lid to the toilet down. I have that one figured out. It&#8217;s rather to stop trying to hit the ball a long way by hitting it hard. I have written about this before. But as I said then, this advice is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/take-the-hit-out-of-your-swing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Take the Hit Out of Your Swing<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-golf-swing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-1Hu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6540","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=6540"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6545,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6540\/revisions\/6545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}