{"id":8044,"date":"2024-07-31T09:23:36","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T16:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=8044"},"modified":"2024-08-08T07:35:24","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T14:35:24","slug":"swing-easy-hit-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/swing-easy-hit-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"Swing Easy, Hit Hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1960&#8217;s, Julius Boros wrote a book titled, <em>Swing Easy, Hit Hard<\/em>. Boros, the winner of the U.S. Open in 1952 and 1963, and the PGA in 1968, had the most effortless swing then, and probably through today.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pUEApMTbJfM?si=P9lMmwmdM3FswnMt\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like this. The more you relax when you swing, the more clubhead speed you generate. <\/p>\n<p>And that is the key to getting the distance you crave. That we all crave. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not saying to swing slowly. You can swing too slowly. Swing as fast as you can feel that you are completerly relaxed. <\/p>\n<p>And you will hit very hard. <\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/vault.si.com\/vault\/1968\/03\/25\/my-easygoing-game\">Boros&#8217;s own comments<\/a> on his swing and how he plays the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1960&#8217;s, Julius Boros wrote a book titled, Swing Easy, Hit Hard. Boros, the winner of the U.S. Open in 1952 and 1963, and the PGA in 1968, had the most effortless swing then, and probably through today. It&#8217;s like this. The more you relax when you swing, the more clubhead speed you generate. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/swing-easy-hit-hard\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Swing Easy, Hit Hard<\/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":[4,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-golf-swing","category-people"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-25K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8044","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=8044"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8056,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8044\/revisions\/8056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}