{"id":7488,"date":"2023-07-13T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=7488"},"modified":"2023-07-15T19:51:56","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T02:51:56","slug":"the-number-one-enemy-of-golfers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/the-number-one-enemy-of-golfers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Number One Enemy of Golfers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You might hear that the number one enemy of golfers is fear. Sorry, that ain&#8217;t it.<\/p>\n<p>No one is throwing a baseball past you at 95 mph and if it misses the strike zone it could hit you. No one is trying to tackle you with as hard a hit as he can muster. <\/p>\n<p>In golf you just stand there and swing a club at a ball. And if it goes in the water instead of on the green, how are you harmed? What have you lost except a golf ball and a stroke on your scorecard? <\/p>\n<p>The number one enemy is uncertainty &#8212; that you have picked the right shot (knowledge) or that you can hit the shot you picked (confidence). <\/p>\n<p>If you have acquired both of those qualities, golf is a simple game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might hear that the number one enemy of golfers is fear. Sorry, that ain&#8217;t it. No one is throwing a baseball past you at 95 mph and if it misses the strike zone it could hit you. No one is trying to tackle you with as hard a hit as he can muster. In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/the-number-one-enemy-of-golfers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Number One Enemy of Golfers<\/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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mental-game"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-1WM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7488","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=7488"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7500,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7488\/revisions\/7500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}