{"id":7799,"date":"2024-03-09T16:09:11","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T00:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=7799"},"modified":"2024-08-20T10:47:45","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T17:47:45","slug":"danielle-kangs-distances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/danielle-kangs-distances\/","title":{"rendered":"Danielle Kang’s Distances"},"content":{"rendered":"

I got the recent Golf Digest<\/em> magazine yesterday, which put the distance or direction debate to bed for good. At least for me.<\/p>\n

There is a feature every month called “What’s in My Bag”, where a touring pro talks about the clubs in their bag. There is a sidebar that shows how far they hit each club.<\/p>\n

This month the pro was Danielle Kang. I looked at the distance sidebar and almost fell off my chair.<\/p>\n

When I was playing my best, my distances were hers, plus or minus a yard. And yet, she is one of the best female golfers in the world, I was a hack trying to get a single-digit handicap.<\/p>\n

We can talk about short game and putting, I have no doubt that she is much better than I was in both those parts of the game. <\/p>\n

But the real difference is in the long game. She is much straighter every time she hits the ball. I was just trying to get the ball on the green. She is aiming for a quadrant of the green and hitting it.<\/p>\n

True, you need to be good around the green, but without a swing that hits the ball straight, you’re playing for bogeys and hard pars.<\/p>\n

Birdies? She makes more in one round than I make all year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I got the recent Golf Digest magazine yesterday, which put the distance or direction debate to bed for good. At least for me. There is a feature every month called “What’s in My Bag”, where a touring pro talks about the clubs in their bag. There is a sidebar that shows how far they hit … Continue reading Danielle Kang’s Distances<\/span> →<\/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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-playing-the-game"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-21N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7799","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=7799"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8113,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7799\/revisions\/8113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}