{"id":6662,"date":"2022-07-06T07:43:44","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T14:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=6662"},"modified":"2022-08-08T08:43:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T15:43:28","slug":"what-and-how-recreational-golfers-should-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/what-and-how-recreational-golfers-should-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"What and How Recreational Golfers Should Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What to practice:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Learn to make contact on the center of the clubface consistently.<\/p>\n<p>Learn how to get on the green in one shot from under full-swing distances.<\/p>\n<p>Learn how to hit chips\/approach putts to one-putt range.<\/p>\n<p>Get good at sinking 4-7 foot putts. These are the ones that good putters sink and poor putters don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to practice:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Measure the attention given to each one by balls hit, not by time spent. For example if your full swing practice is built around skill-building, it might take a half hour, at least, to hit 30 balls. You can hit thirty 4-7 foot putts in well under 10 minutes. <\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Practice-Plan.pdf\">professional practice plan<\/a> shows you how this practice concept works in full.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What to practice: Learn to make contact on the center of the clubface consistently. Learn how to get on the green in one shot from under full-swing distances. Learn how to hit chips\/approach putts to one-putt range. Get good at sinking 4-7 foot putts. These are the ones that good putters sink and poor putters &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/what-and-how-recreational-golfers-should-practice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What and How Recreational Golfers Should 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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-practice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-1Js","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6662","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=6662"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6723,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6662\/revisions\/6723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}