{"id":6892,"date":"2022-10-21T12:35:13","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T19:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=6892"},"modified":"2023-02-12T09:22:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T17:22:25","slug":"150-yards-and-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/150-yards-and-in\/","title":{"rendered":"150 Yards and In"},"content":{"rendered":"

Harvey Penick has a short bit in his Little Red Book<\/em> titled “Long and Short.” The point he makes is that you should spend most of your practice time on your 150-yard shot, using whatever club that is.<\/p>\n

This is best advice I have ever seen for the strength of your overall game.<\/p>\n

Why?<\/p>\n

Penick said, “There’s no reason why the average golfer should take more than three to get down from 150 yards.”<\/p>\n

If you make your goal to get down in three once you have arrived at or beyond the 150-yard marker that most courses have, the 70s are within reach.<\/p>\n

If you are money with an iron from 150 yards and in, that same swing will put your tee ball in the fairway reliably, too.<\/p>\n

From there, use that swing to hit the ball on the green, then get your approach putt<\/em> close – or – hit the ball next to the green and get your chip<\/em> close.<\/p>\n

That’s three skills to get really good at:
\n – hitting the ball reasonably straight,
\n – approach putting, and
\n – chipping.<\/p>\n

That’s how I got into single digits, and that’s what you can do if you dedicate yourself to the task.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Harvey Penick has a short bit in his Little Red Book titled “Long and Short.” The point he makes is that you should spend most of your practice time on your 150-yard shot, using whatever club that is. This is best advice I have ever seen for the strength of your overall game. Why? Penick … Continue reading 150 Yards and In<\/span> →<\/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":[64,7,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gold-post","category-playing-the-game","category-practice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-1Na","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6892","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=6892"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7088,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6892\/revisions\/7088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}