{"id":7607,"date":"2023-10-02T07:59:23","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T14:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=7607"},"modified":"2023-10-02T07:59:54","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T14:59:54","slug":"picking-the-ball-off-the-fairway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/picking-the-ball-off-the-fairway\/","title":{"rendered":"Picking the Ball Off the Fairway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is something I have been doing from the fairway for a while now and which seems to be working pretty well.<\/p>\n<p>Hitting out of a fairway bunker is a real easy shot for me. I just keep my lower body quiet and nip the ball off the surface of the sand. It always works out well. Really nice ball flight.<\/p>\n<p>I got the idea, why not try that off the fairway, too? I mean just the picking the ball off the sand part. <\/p>\n<p>So I tried it, and it&#8217;s working really well. Just nip the ball off the turf, not try to be hitting down and all that stuff, but hitting level. <\/p>\n<p>Result? Beautiful ball flight, the club not getting into an argument with the ground, everything good.<\/p>\n<p>Just thought I would mention it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is something I have been doing from the fairway for a while now and which seems to be working pretty well. Hitting out of a fairway bunker is a real easy shot for me. I just keep my lower body quiet and nip the ball off the surface of the sand. It always works &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/picking-the-ball-off-the-fairway\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Picking the Ball Off the Fairway<\/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-7607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-golf-swing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-1YH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7607","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=7607"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7609,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7607\/revisions\/7609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}