{"id":7754,"date":"2024-01-24T09:51:13","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T17:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=7754"},"modified":"2024-01-24T09:51:13","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T17:51:13","slug":"how-to-become-a-versatile-shotmaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/how-to-become-a-versatile-shotmaker\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Become a Versatile Shotmaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In order to score well and have fun, you need to have a shot for whatever a golf course can throw at you. That&#8217;s being a shotmaker.<\/p>\n<p>This is how you accomplish that over time, and it&#8217;s so easy.<\/p>\n<p>When you play a round, and you come across a situation that you can&#8217;t handle, or have to play a shot you don&#8217;t hit well, go to the range afterward and fix it.<\/p>\n<p>Patch up those holes in your bag right away so when you get into that same spot again you&#8217;ll know what to do and be able to hit a good shot from it.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, though, you might not be able to figure it out. That&#8217;s when you get a playing lesson, and have three or four shots like that you want to work on. <\/p>\n<p>Bring a notebook and pen and write down what the pro tells you to do, because I guarantee that a year later you will have forgotten all about it.<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s OK to be at a loss once, that&#8217;s what you call experience. But twice from the same spot, shame on you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to score well and have fun, you need to have a shot for whatever a golf course can throw at you. That&#8217;s being a shotmaker. This is how you accomplish that over time, and it&#8217;s so easy. When you play a round, and you come across a situation that you can&#8217;t handle, or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/how-to-become-a-versatile-shotmaker\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How To Become a Versatile Shotmaker<\/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":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shot-making"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-214","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7754","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=7754"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7756,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7754\/revisions\/7756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}