{"id":725,"date":"2014-03-24T00:39:56","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T07:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=725"},"modified":"2019-07-02T16:35:36","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T23:35:36","slug":"my-swing-keys-for-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/my-swing-keys-for-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"My Swing Keys for 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Lately I have been hitting the ball very straight. This is because I have been paying attention to a few simple swing keys. They might be worth anything only to me, but just in case they\u2019re not, here they are:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">1. 3:1 rhythm. Three counts to the end of the backswing, one count back to impact. Often, just doing this is enough to produce a good shot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">2. Start the club back straight away from the ball. My pet swing flaw is to take it back inside.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">3. Take the club back to control. This means to take the club back only so far as I still feel a connection between the clubhead and the ball. The clubhead knows where the ball is and how to get back to it. If I make my backswing to long, I lose this connection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">4. The left hand leads the club into impact. You might think this would leave the clubface open. It does only if your body is too far ahead of your arms.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">When I get these four things right, I hit the ball right where I\u2019m looking.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s to low scores in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>[April 2018 note: These four points evolved into <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/six-fundamentals-of-the-recreational-golf-swing\/\">Six Fundamentals of the Recreational Golf Swing<\/a>.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately I have been hitting the ball very straight. This is because I have been paying attention to a few simple swing keys. They might be worth anything only to me, but just in case they\u2019re not, here they are: 1. 3:1 rhythm. Three counts to the end of the backswing, one count back to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/my-swing-keys-for-2014\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Swing Keys for 2014<\/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-725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-golf-swing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-bH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725","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=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4094,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions\/4094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}