{"id":7032,"date":"2023-01-09T11:02:44","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T19:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=7032"},"modified":"2023-01-09T11:02:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T19:02:44","slug":"winter-practice-by-golf-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/winter-practice-by-golf-digest\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Practice by Golf Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Golf Digest<\/em> just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfdigest.com\/story\/new-years-resolutions-for-your-golf-swing-three-ways-to-prepare-for-the-new-year?utm_medium=email&#038;utm_source=010123&#038;utm_campaign=newsandtours&#038;utm_content=DM34913&#038;uuid=b09cd5d1-fa7c-49f3-928a-e2fb47f21cfb\">published an article<\/a> on three things you should be doing this winter to maintain your game and improve it. Read the article, it&#8217;s short, then come back here for my commentary.<\/p>\n<p>1. Absolutely. Standing over a three-foot but, knowing that you are going to sink it, does wonders for your score and that confidence spills over to every other part of your game. <\/p>\n<p>Make your target, instead of a fake hole, a 28-oz. tomato can. Hit the can dead center. See <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/BRGRevEd32013.pdf\"><em>Better Recreational Golf<\/em><\/a>, pp. 54-55 to find out why.<\/p>\n<p>2. Stats. Fairways hit, greens in regulation, number of putts&#8211;not worth that much. Instead, keep number of full swings, number of short shots, length of each putt, hole by hole. <\/p>\n<p>3. Get a lesson that deals with correcting why you aren&#8217;t hitting the ball straight on command. Take notes during the lesson. Then at home, work on those things every day. Go to the range once a week to put your practice to the test and find out which things are now working and which things need extra attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Golf Digest just published an article on three things you should be doing this winter to maintain your game and improve it. Read the article, it&#8217;s short, then come back here for my commentary. 1. Absolutely. Standing over a three-foot but, knowing that you are going to sink it, does wonders for your score and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/winter-practice-by-golf-digest\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Winter Practice by Golf Digest<\/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-7032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-practice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-1Pq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7032","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=7032"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7045,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7032\/revisions\/7045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}