{"id":7967,"date":"2024-07-09T04:15:16","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T11:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=7967"},"modified":"2024-08-20T10:43:08","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T17:43:08","slug":"how-to-practice-your-diver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/how-to-practice-your-diver\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Practice Your Driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The driver should be an easy club to hit. The ball sits up on a tee and the clubface is huge. You&#8217;re almost standing upright when you swing. <\/p>\n<p>Yet it&#8217;s the club golfers have the least success with. Here&#8217;s how to change that.<\/p>\n<p>Take a driver and a 9-iron to the range. Warm up with the 9. When you&#8217;re hitting them well, one after the other, put it down and pick up your driver. Swing your driver with a little bit of 9-iron in it. <\/p>\n<p>After a few of those, go back to the 9-iron and put a bit of driver into it.  <\/p>\n<p>Keep going back and forth, bringing one club into the other, until you are using the same swing for both clubs.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s how you practice your driver. It&#8217;s the same swing as your 9-iron, just with you standing more upright.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, all your other clubs are like that, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The driver should be an easy club to hit. The ball sits up on a tee and the clubface is huge. You&#8217;re almost standing upright when you swing. Yet it&#8217;s the club golfers have the least success with. Here&#8217;s how to change that. Take a driver and a 9-iron to the range. Warm up with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/how-to-practice-your-diver\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to Practice Your Driver<\/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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-driver"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-24v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7967","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=7967"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8112,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7967\/revisions\/8112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}